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TIL of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals: an organization aimed at clothing “indecent” naked animals that lasted from 1959-1962 and had over 50,000 members. SINA ended when the founder was exposed as Alan Abel, notorious prankster, who wanted to parody the conservative moralist of the time

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jarR TIL 19th century England (and the US, but a bit later) had ‘Ugly Clubs’ where people that had less desirable facial traits met up to drink, sing, and satirize their own looks.
pYy1N TIL Jalapeño peppers are generally less spicy today than they were 20 years ago due to crossbreeding with a specific breed of Jalapeño that Texas A&M scientists created which has a consistently lower spice while also being hardier and quicker to grow.
NPDJ TIL That Dick Cheney’s wife wrote an erotic lesbian novel and tried to cover it up
oRKmK TIL of actor Leslie Banks who received partial facial wounding in the First World War. Banks would take advantage of this in his career, by using the scarred side for darker films, and the undamaged side for light-hearted movies.
e0rdb TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.