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TIL 5 members of Ernest Hemingway's family committed suicide.

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krLd TIL in their “coming of age” ritual, aboriginals in Australia cut a “birth control” hole in the base of the boy’s penis and insert into it a splinter to keep it from closing. Urine and semen come out of the hole unless the subincision is plugged with a finger.
VMDD4 TIL during World War 2's "Battle for Britain" the British Home Guard were so under equipped that many volunteers received neither weapons or uniforms, with many improvising shotguns and explosives
1655d TIL there was a Finnish actress named Sirkka Sari who was born in May 1920 and died in July 1939. At a hotel party with fellow actors, she fell into a chimney while on the roof, thinking it was a balcony. Only 19 at her death, her life spanned only the interwar period, never witnessing WW1 or WW2.
epZWD TIL that Pantone’s infamous “ugliest color” was renamed from olive green in Australia after offense from actual olive growers
bOjZ TIL the word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland