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TIL Jingle Bells was originally called “The one horse opened sleigh” and was written as a Thanksgiving or Drinking song.

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e0lRJ TIL William Shatner sold his own kidney stone for $25,000 and donated the money to Habitat For Humanity.
D18wJ TIL: One of the founding fathers died from sticking a whalebone up his peehole.
1Wm7 TIL America’s main beers (Budweiser, Coors, etc) are light and relatively flavorless due to WWII making them rely on cheaper ingredients
BO4K TIL That when men don’t masturbate for 7 days their testosterone levels increase by 45.7%
W70l4 TIL that a toast sandwich is something that exists. There was a recipe for it in the ‘invalid cookery’ section of the 1861 Book of Household Management and in 2011, it was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry.