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TIL Polish Franciscan friar Maximilian Kolbe was imprisoned in Auschwitz during WWII. When 10 men were chosen for execution to deter escapes, one man lamented losing his family. Kolbe stepped in, sacrificing his life so the man could live, embodying hope amidst the Holocaust's horrors.

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J1PZj TIL Jonathon Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, published a book in 1722 called Benefit of Farting Explained. It included different types of farts like “the sonorous and full-toned or rousing fart,” “the double fart,” “the soft fizzing fart,” “the wet fart” and “the sullen wind-bound fart.”
KY0mG TIL I learned that “ginseng poaching” is both a family tradition and common crime in the Smoky Mountains with prominent bandits sporting names like “Billy Joe Hurley”
DLKY TIL Lemmy’s aim for Motorhead was that it would “be so loud that if we move in next door to you, your lawn will die”
b9KZZ TIL about Makuragaeshi which are Japanese spirits that visit people at night to flip their pillows over. They're mentioned in stories from the Edo period to modern times. In ancient Japan, they believed the soul left the body during dreams and that it couldn't return if the pillow was flipped.
m1NpP TIL that Costco Wholesaler has a funeral section and sells caskets.