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TIL when outhouses were prevalent, the most common body parts to be bitten by a spider were the genitals and buttocks.

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GYOKN TIL DeForest Kelley joked that one of his biggest fears was that "He's dead, Jim", would be on his tombstone. When he passed away from stomach cancer in 1999, Newsweek led his obituary by saying "We're not even going to try to resist. He's dead, Jim".
VOkG TIL Japan outlawed production of child pornography in 1999 and just outlawed possession of child pornography in June 2014
0XJv TIL that an estimated over 10 million people protested the war in Iraq in February of 2003, making it the largest protest ever.
6QGZ TIL that, while Ben Franklin did first propose Daylight Savings, he meant it as a joke
QJKXk TIL in 2017, a company restoring a captured Iraqi tank from the Gulf War, discovered five gold bars hidden in the fuel tank when they found they couldn't lift it even though it was empty of fuel.