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TIL it was fashionable for people in 1686 to bandage their B-Holes because Louie XIV had anal fistula surgery

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Vv7Z TIL When Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong fame, went to prison for conspiring to distribute drug paraphernalia, his cellmate was Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street.
d8mA8 TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" is founded upon a 1945 recommendation that had no medical basis. Today's medical recommendation is "drink when you're thirsty, unless you're outside on a hot day or you're elderly"
RNYl TIL that Brad Pitt only weighed ~150 pounds for his role as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
5YAZB TIL in 1957 a man crashed his military plane in the Sierra Nevadas and was lost. He emerged 54 days later and had a tale of survival, but with no wreckage found, people thought he sold the plane to the Russians. His wife left him, he was cast out. Years after he died, the wreckage was finally found.
EggOP TIL the Ute people of Utah used to use fossilized trilobites as amulets to protect against bullets and diphtheria, and they correctly identified them as a marine creature.