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TIL that when Pixar started to work on Toy Story 3, all the animators agreed to shave their hair, and to have a competition to see who could last the longest without cutting it.

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Eg5wX TIL of hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot which successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but while attempting to hitchhike across the United States, it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.
epWPL TIL that "Give us today our daily bread" is a mistranslation. The word translated as "daily" is "epiousion" in the original Greek. Scholars disagree on what exactly this enigmatic word is supposed to mean, but a direct translation would be something like "supersubstantial."
9PQp TIL - Prostitutes in 16th century England shaved their pubic hair and then wore vagina toupees called ‘merkins’.
JL4l TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called “laser”, from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic.
v1oX8 TIL that in 1845, the founders of a new city in Oregon flipped a coin to decide if they would name it after Boston, Massachusetts or Portland, Maine. Portland won 2 out of 3 tosses and the name stuck