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TIL that if you mistype words on your Android keyboard you can simply swipe your finger across the screen from right to left on the backspace key and it will delete entire words at a time rather than individual letters

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vPGG8 TIL about the Brazen bull a torture device used in Ancient Greece. The condemned were locked inside the stomach, a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death, pipes would transfer the screams through the bull's nostrils, as if the bull was bellowing.
k7JW TIL that Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle
mxl0v TIL that the original lyrics in Little Richard’s song “Tutti Frutti” were changed from “Tutti Frutti, Loose Booty” to “Tutti Frutti, aw rooty” because the term “Loose booty” was considered too scandalous.
R5a0a TIL in Germany, children are divided, after 10, between several options for secondary school, according to their school results
Q5gL TIL that the music played by the cantina band in Return of the Jedi was called “Jizz,” and the players were called “Jizz Wailers.” One of the instruments is called a “Jizz Box.”