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TIL about Khuk Khi Kai, a jail in Thailand which was designed so that prisoners were subjected to a regular shower of chicken poop

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6EMBZ TIL the Pict people were named by the Romans. They left no writings, so we don't know what they called themselves. The word 'pict' and 'picture' have the same Latin root, meaning, 'painted.' The Romans named them for the blue woad with which they painted themselves.
QNRMp TIL of the Super Chief a train that was famous for carrying start between Chicago and Los Angeles back in the day.
j6rBX TIL Poland syndrome is the name of a breast deformation, and not the practice of attacking countries while claiming to "shoot back"
PYNjJ TIL that in 1944 a crossword puzzle in the the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph unintentionally contained the names of the D-Day landing sites before the attack took place. This was believed to be the result of the puzzle creator hearing the words from schoolboys who interacted with soldiers.
gQVL TIL A senior scientist in the Manhattan Project was later persecuted by a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee for being “at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in physics called…quantum mechanics.”