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TIL TGI Fridays exists because the founder was single and wanted to create a place to meet women

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Z8dpv TIL that conjoined twins occur approximately once in every 50,000 to 60,000.
1aJPr TIL that a man in Sudan was forced to MARRY A GOAT by his local council of elders after being caught in the act with it by the goat's owner. He also had to pay a $50 dowry to the owner. It is not clear if they are still together.
JxdB TIL about the blue-ringed octopus, which despite being only 5-8 inches in size, carries enough venom to kill 26 humans within minutes. The bites are tiny and painless, with some victims not aware they were bit until paralysis sets in.
N70K1 TIL a Buffalo teen was once sentenced to shovel manure at the zoo for 350 hours, as a punishment for killing a swan
loEWA TIL that Ibn Sina or Avicenna is widely considered to be the “Father of modern Medicine”. His book “The Canon of Medicine” published in 1025 became the standard textbook of medicine and remained a medical authority for centuries in the Medieval Europe and the Islamic world