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TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.

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pMkG TIL that a children’s entertainer named Soupy Sales once asked the children who watched his show to send him “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their parents wallets and purses. He was suspended for two weeks when parents complained.
p85e4 TIL Connaught Place, an example of Georgian architecture, was made to serve the elite living in Delhi and was inspired by the Royal Crescent in Bath. It also boasts of India’s first underground and air-conditioned market, Palika Bazaar
0wO7v TIL that since Jason Alexander (George Costanza) is a trained Broadway singer, he had to re-record the famous George answering machine song because he sung it too well; Larry David wanted him to purposely sing terrible to make it sound believable.
oB7k8 TIL in 2002, a Coptic monk in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre moved his chair just a bit to get away from the sun. This caused a fistfight between Ethiopian and Coptic monks and eleven people ended up being hospitalised.
7rVvx TIL of gutter oil - cooking oil which has been illegally recycled from waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers, grease traps, slaughterhouse waste and sewage from sewer drains. It is estimated 10% of low end restaurants in China use it