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TIL Christopher Walken was a lion tamer as a teenager
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TIL it is estimated a quarter of the entire human population is infected with the airborne disease Tuberculosis
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TIL that in the 1780s, the Austrian army attacked itself by mistake and lost over 10,000 men
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TIL when a marine asked his friend to watch his house while he was gone the friend decided to do $70,000 worth of renovations on it.
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TIL a "bum gun" is a type of bidet that resembles a garden hose with a hand-spray nozzle. They're so commonly found in Thailand (both Western-style and squat toilets) that politicians were outraged upon learning their parliamentary building didn't have what some refer to as "ass blasters".
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TIL Noah S. Sweat was a Mississippi congressman known for a 1952 speech that took him over two months to write, in which he proudly stood on both sides of prohibition. This became known as the "If-By-Whisky" fallacy.