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TIL That Jonah Hill has sworn the most out of any Hollywood actor with 376 curse words.
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TIL Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, practiced the unusual habit of consuming a spoonful of it each day. He attributed his long life of 96 years to this practice, without any scientific research to back it up.
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TIL that the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, was not supplied with a toothbrush during her voyage; she used her finger to brush her teeth
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TIL The Douamont Ossuary has the bones of over 100,000 unidentified soldiers who died at Verdun. The total combined casualties of the battle amounted to 750,000 with 300,000 being KIA
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TIL that in 1642, Connecticut settler George Spencer was suspected of bestiality when a local pig birthed a piglet that resembled Spencer. He confessed, and they hanged both George and the pig. Another settler was later convicted of the same crime, named Thomas Hogg.