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TIL that there are women who are prepared to pay to have their breasts slapped to make said breasts appear fuller and firmer.

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epjOk TIL that the rapture, the evangelical belief that Christians will physically ascend to meet Jesus in the sky, is an idea that only dates to the 1830s.
4rM6 TIL The Pastafarian conception of Heaven includes a beer volcano and a stripper factory. The Pastafarian Hell is almost a complete mirror, except that the beer is stale and the strippers have sexually transmitted diseases.
G9AJ TIL a US Navy SEAL suffered through 30 minutes of agonizing hell to save his teammates from an exploding grenade. Not a karma whoring attempt, I just really want people to remember this guy
GYn75 TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.
nX5r TIL the Canadian ice hockey team were so dominant that they did not participate in the knock-out tournament of the 1930 World Championships. They were put straight into the gold medal final game, and the tournament was played to determine an opponent. Canada won 6-1 in the final to claim the gold.