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TIL Massachusetts highwayman James Allen's deathbed confession was later copied into a book bound by his own skin.

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epKBJ TIL that wiping one's nose & treating it's underlying cause of runnyness (allergy, pathogen, etc) is much more effective and safer for the nasal passages than blowing it
6Epx7 TIL that Turks and Caicos, a major salt producing area, drew salt mounds on it's crest in 1889. When sent to London, igloos were drawn on it because they didn't know where the Turks and Caicos were. This was replaced by a flamingo crest in 1965.
MaYV TIL flour tortillas were invented by a Jewish sect living in Mexico (then a colony of New Spain) who considered corn to be non-kosher.
mRNo TIL that in the wake of WWII, the combination of inexpensive geothermal power and high prices for imported fruit led to Iceland using the warmth from lava to grow banana trees.
rRelW TIL Ed O'Neill used to make birthday phone calls to fans of ‘Married With Children’ in character, and in true Al Bundy nature, he only called them collect.