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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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g4BW TIL a team at Nike created a pair of sneakers inspired by the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ UFO cult (who wore Nike Decades when they killed themselves). They never made it into stores.
JlO4 TIL that in 1777 a girl named Sybil Ludington went on a night ride to warn American forces of the approaching British. She rode 40 miles - more than twice the distance of Paul Revere - from 9 p.m. to around dawn and was only 16 years old at that time.
Lk4Dd TIL that killing a tyrant was legal in classical Greece and was called Tyrannicide
ANWXg TIL: Engineers make perfect steel spheres by filling it with water and then detonating a bomb inside it.
p8Y6G TIL Robert Johnson, the co-founder of BET and America’s first African-American billionaire, paid out a massive $400 million to his wife Sheila in a 2002 divorce. The massive settlement was decided by Judge William Newman, Jr., who three years later married Johnson's ex-wife