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TIL Adolf Hitler was the first European leader to ban human zoos, a popular attraction in Europe where exotic peoples were paid to be on exhibit for onlookers, with recreated habitats and shows. Belgium was the last to ban them, in 1958.

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OoMv4 TIL that Poo-phoria occurs when your bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve, which descends from the brain stem to the colon. It takes a particularly "large mass of stool" to trigger poo-phoria and its vagal-nerve-induced feelings of exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps.
K7rE TIL 9 year old “Vietnam Girl” famously photographed after having all her clothes and more then a third of her skin completely burned off her body by a napalm bombing, somehow miraculously survived, then left Vietnam, and is now a Canadian Citizen working in Ontatio.
dD6OB TIL that despite the notoriety of the Three Mile Island accident, wherein the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station suffered a partial meltdown, it resulted in no deaths and epidemiology studies on the region concluded that “the accident had no observable long-term health effects.”
E1LKX TIL that the music used in the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy advertisement was pirated
awR59 TIL that during the American Civil War, several divisions of the confederate army had a large snowball fight. It started when a couple of hundred men from Texas plotted a friendly fight with men from Arkansas, which spiralled into a brawl involving 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia.