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TIL that Johnny Knoxville has to use a catheter 2x a day to prevent scar tissue from building up in his penis because of all the penis-punishing pranks he’s done

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lwYV TIL about Lyenkoism, a pseudo-scientific theory that claimed that communism was nature’s base state in rejection to natural selection and genetic sciences. It was the official theory in the USSR until Stalin’s death.
4XL76 TIL the waterbed was invented in 1833 by a Scottish Physician. He intentionally did not patent it so that anyone could design their own variation of the waterbed and it could help as many people as it could who were suffering from bed sores.
PLBL TIL chimpanzees deliberately seek out and eat fire ants, presumably to enjoy their venom in the same way we enjoy spicy food
NXXLQ TIL John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is an unofficial sequel to Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974) after Clark told Carpenter his idea for a sequel was the killer to escape from a mental institution on Halloween
jXKR TIL that plastic was invented because of a $10,000 prize to develop replacement ivory. And that the money was offered by a billiard ball manufacturer.