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TIL the origin of Jackass came when Johnny Knoxville tested self-defense equipment on himself. This included him being maced, tasered, and finally shooting himself in the chest while wearing a bullet-proof vest. MTV has never allowed this stunt to be included on any of the Jackass episodes or DVDs.

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R7L06 TIL that Fidel Castro established concentration camps for gay people because he considered homosexuality as inherently counterrevolutionary and as bourgeois decadence
rbPx TIL that for the first 22 years of its history Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. Founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a ‘pest and scourge of mankind.’
YpgaG TIL of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, presented annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
MKK7 TIL in Cherrapunji, India locals have built bridges with living tree roots for hundreds of years. They direct the roots of the native ficus to grow in a certain direction, using bamboo as support. Some of the bridges are more than 30m long and can support the weight of 50 people.
8apGG TIL A set of foot prints of a young child and a wolf or dog walking side by side was found in the Chauvet Cave in France. This information suggests the origin of the human-dog companionship could date to before the last Ice Age.