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TIL that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about farts.

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GYXRJ TIL a villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade to crack walnuts for a quarter century, until he saw the grenade in a government flyer
9wwmX TIL Vienna Philharmonic did not allow female musicians to join until 1997
yQd8v TIL about "Bald–Hairy" a Russian political joke based on the observation that the nation's presidents consistently alternate hair types (ie Lenin was bald, Stalin had hair, Khruschev was bald, Brezhnev had hair.)
oQ6R TIL of the North American X-15, a rocket plane from the 1950’s that achieved the manned airspeed record in 1967 when William J. “Pete” Knight flew it 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h).
MEym TIL the homeless person, Kenni Nickel, from the viral video “How Does A Homeless Man Spend $100?” is dead. The youtuber behind the video, “Josh Paler Lin”, raised close to $150k on “indiegogo.com”, stating it was for Nickel, before he died. According to Nickel’s family he never received the money.