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TIL that professional farters, or flatulists, were entertainers in ancient and medieval times whose routines consisted of passing gas in an amusing manner. They could produce "various rhythms and pitches with their intestinal wind".

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rNYZw TIL of Solomon Lefschetz, a mathematician who lost both of his hands in an industrial accident. He would go on to revolutionize algebraic topology and algebraic geometry.
OprX TIL A man was imprisoned for 25 years before a hotel receipt finally proved he could not have been at the scene of the crime he had been falsely convicted for.
VMQ9D TIL Archaeologists found 2,800 year old ceramic sippy cups with cute animal motifs, containing traces of livestock milk, which suggests infants back then were drinking it. The dates correspond to a baby boom at that time, suggesting that sippy cups were an important innovation for humanity.
VBJjG TIL about Kukur Tihar, a Nepali Hindu festival dedicated to celebrating and praising dogs. They are given treats and garlands and it considered sinful to be anything less than kind to them.
D1xle TIL That Sir Winston Churchill, at the hight of the Beatlemania, ended his parliamentary career that had begun before the Wright brothers' pioneering flight and had ended in an age when supersonic aircraft could deliver nuclear weapons. (1900-1964)