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TIL the treadmill was created as a torture device.

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a8An0 TIL Fatbergs! Fatbergs are formed when oil, grease and fat poured down drains combine with non-biodegradable items such as wet wipes, nappies and cotton buds. One of them became famous around the world: Fatty mc fatberg! It weighed 130 tonnes and was 250 meters long. This was in Whitechapel, London.
xoV5 TIL that famous mathematician Kurt Gödel starved himself to death. He was obsessed with the idea of being poisoned, and would only eat food prepared by his wife. When his wife was hospitalized for six months, he refused to eat, eventually dying of malnutrition.
GYbeJ TIL "Knifers" or Daozi Jiang were responsible for castration of eunuchs in Imperial China who anesthetized participants with hot chili pepper and removed participant's scrotum and penis with a single slash of the knife.
Ld6P TIL the first telephone operators were boys. However, they quickly earned a reputation for being rude and abusive to callers. Young women were hired soon after as they didn’t swear as much (and were faster).
oRka8 TIL that the creator of the Pringles can, Fredric Baur, had his ashes buried in a Pringles can when he died in 2008.