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TIL Germans celebrate Father’s day by having “oddly dressed men pulling wagons filled with beer into parks and drinking until they pass out.”

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leR7 TIL that New York municipal authorities will implement a plan for mass sterilization of the city’s rats, using a chemical to neutralize the reproductive systems of female rats.
EgKpp TIL that almost all of Louis XIV's body was destroyed during the French Revolution. However, a piece of his mummified heart was kept by the Archbishop of York, who showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who ate it.
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