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TIL that Eye of Newt was just another name for mustard seed.

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epeRJ TIL of The Sawback Blade Bayonet. A German knife used in WW1 that would pull out the insides of it's victims and cause inevitable and painful death. They were recalled by the German military because British and French soldiers would torture and kill any soldiers caught with one, on principle.
LvMZ TIL of a man who suffered a stroke and, due to brain damage, lost the ability to feel sad
VMPE0 TIL about the Doctors' Riot of 1788, which began after a medical student waved a dissected arm out the window at a boy who's mother had recently died and told him the arm belonged to her.
NnJ TIL 20% of the entire world’s unfrozen freshwater is in a single lake.
okg8 TIL kangaroos testicles are above their penis