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TIL there is a mascot for Testicular Cancer Awareness called Mr. Balls, aka ‘Senhor Testiculo’.

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LkKYr TIL: Ustad, or T-24, a wild tiger labelled a man-eater for supposedly killing four men in nine years. Due to his aggressive nature, attributed to multiple sedations for medical concerns, he was placed in captivity to the dismay of many. He is the only tiger ever featured on India Today's cover.
xVdj0 TIL of Klaus Störtebeker, who legend has it after being captured asked to have released as many of his men as he could walk past after being beheaded. After the beheading, Störtebeker's body arose and walked past eleven men before the executioner tripped him with an outstretched foot.
x6Vrk TIL of the "royal touch", a medieval practice wherein monarchs touched one of their subjects suffering from an illness, thereby supposedly curing them of said illness
Jnbv TIL Mark Twain was a confederate solider.
R5MA4 TIL: Bees can turn any worker bee egg into a new queen by feeding it a special diet. If the current queen dies or isn’t doing her job the hive can literally just make a new queen to replace her.