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TIL that “Dagobertducktaks” (2014 Dutch word of the year) is an extra tax for the super rich, named after Donald Duck’s uncle Dagobert – known in English as……..Scrooge McDuck.

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awDMo TIL Unit 731 in the Japanese Army undertook lethal human experimentation during WWII, not publicized because the U.S. secretly granted immunity to the physicians in exchange for research on biological warfare and data from human experimentation.
M7jAA TIL that at the onset of War in the Pacific Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew extremely detailed information about every island in the Pacific, which he learned thanks to his hobby of stamp collecting
d8JNr TIL men who empty their ballsack five to seven times per week are 36 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer compared to those who ejaculated less than two times per week.
VBLg8 TIL Lobsters (and crabs) pee out of their heads
wj68 TIL there’s a miniature TV monitor inside the Big Bird costume that gives the puppeteer a third person’s view of himself and his surroundings.