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TIL that you shouldn’t store a sleeping bag in the small stuff sack that comes with it, as it ruins the insulation.

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N80e TIL if you were executed in 19th century England they cut you open and the public could walk by to have a look. The executioner also got to keep your trousers and stockings.
xeZg TIL Napoleon Bonaparte’s favorite lieutenant, Marshal Michel Ney, was granted permission at his execution to order the firing squad to fire. Ney told his men, “Wait for the order. It will be my last to you.”
wo50E TIL that Charles Dickens was a great lover of cats, so much so that when one of his beloved cats, Bob, passed away, Dickens was so upset that his sister-in-law fashioned one of Bob's paws into a letter opener. Dickens kept this at his side as he wrote and he used it every morning to open his mail.
7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.
R7JYj TIL the Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion that satirises better known belief systems. Church members seek to acquire “Slack” through sex and avoidance of work.