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TIL A ‘Tobacco Enema’, blowing smoke up someones backside, used to be used as a method of resuscitation when someone had drowned

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Y7R6B TIL the spiders Chrysso venusta and Cyrtophora cicatrosa can rapidly change their colours, similar to ectotherms such as reptiles, frogs, cephalopods (including species of squid, octopus, cuttlefish), insects, crustaceans and fish
EaDp TIL Simon Cowell’s first job was polishing Jack Nicholson’s axe in “The Shining”. He worked as a runner on-set and cleaned Nicholson’s axe between takes for the most famous scenes, making it so shiny you could see your face in it.
dGYZ TIL After Esquire rejected a story about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm, Hugh Hefner published it in Playboy. In response to angry letters, Hefner wrote: “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
GY77g TIL butterfly knives originated in the Philippines after WWII as a product marketed to American soldiers.
KYoB4 TIL two Imperial Japanese soldiers competed to see who would be the first to decapitate 100 surrendered Chinese soldiers with a sword. (they were later executed for war crimes, having killed 106 and 105, respectively)