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TIL that smokers with hepatitis may lose their taste for smoking

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l7Zd1 TIL that digambara monks don’t wear clothes, don’t bathe or clean their teeth, sleep on the ground, only eat food free of pain, cutting or destruction, pluck all the hair off their head and face by hand, and only walk on well-worn, well-lit paths to avoid stepping on insects.
ewoD TIL, there was once a game of tug-of-war so large and intense that two men lost their arms during the battle. (They were later re-attached).
9Y5GQ TIL the president and vice-president can't be from the same state.
epPX6 TIL “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” features Mount Fuji, being in the “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” series
AD41n TIL that the small "climbing boys" who were forced up chimneys to clean them sometimes had fires lit underneath them deliberately to encourage them to climb if they were reluctant, and would sometimes get caught in the flames and burn to death