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TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote a joke paper submission to the Royal Academy of Brussels called "Fart Proudly" which details how important research into reducing the smell of farts needs to be undertaken.

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Y7XkP TIL that there has never been a state or federal law on the books that prohibited killing a praying mantis. Since the 1950s, a rumor has circulated that killing a praying mantis carries a fine.
5VGBD TIL that if Bronx High School of Science was a country it would rank 23rd in number of Nobel Prizes. It has produced more Nobel Prizes than 45 US States
x61dw TIL that in 1866, Mark Twain went surfing in Hawaii.
awVK0 TIL that a frog was the mainstream pregnancy test in the 1950s. If a woman’s urine injected into the frog caused it to lay eggs, then the woman was pregnant.
AyK4 TIL after Rick James died, his autopsy found alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine, and cocaine in his blood.