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TIL Samurai would burn incense in their helmets so their heads would smell sweet if decapitated.

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8al0Z TIL A NCAA football coach was fired after a co-worker found pornographic videos of children on his cell phone. He fought the charges vigorously after being charged with 2 felonies. He was finally reinstated after 18 months after it was revealed it was his kids taking a bath.
p8k4A TIL Mozart had Tourette’s syndrome. 11 out of 25 people that were associated with him talked about “his perpetual movements and mannerisms, which were regarded as facial and bodily tics”.
yVWXp TIL that the Presidential transition between Truman and Eisenhower was extraordinarily acrimonious. In their car ride to the capital for the inauguration, Eisenhower wondered aloud "what SOB ordered my son back [from Korea], just to embarrass me.” Truman replied "I did."
R7QVj TIL that Ted Bundy worked at a suicide hotline, helping to save lives, before becoming the infamous serial killer we know today.
6EZpZ TIL that the digestive system is an "open" system because the mouth and the anus open to the outside of the body. Food technically is passing through us on the outside...