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TIL of the "Poe Toaster". A shadowy figure dressed in black who for over 7 decades toasted Edgar Alan Poe on his birthday at his grave with cognac and three roses

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d8nyB TIL, you can change the taste of your ejaculate with certain foods
M9pV TIL that the russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski got struck in the face by a proton beam in a particle accelerator, and survived. He described the sensation as seeing a light “brighter than a thousand suns”
RY4w TIL Charlie Chaplin spent the last two decades of his career concentrating on re-editing and scoring his old films for re-release, along with securing their ownership and distribution rights.
KDY4 TIL President Nixon once described Timothy Leary as “the most dangerous man in America”, simply because he was an advocate of psychedelic drugs.
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