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TIL that exposure to semen promotes feelings of bonding between jizzer and jizzipient

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1RYO TIL Harvard once Expelled Ten Students for Being Gay in a Secret Kangaroo Court until Being Revealed in 2002
xVJR7 TIL Le Pétomane was a French professional farter. His act involved sound effects of cannon fire and thunderstorms, as well as playing "'O Sole Mio" and "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through his anus. He could also blow out a candle yards away. His audience included royalty and Sigmund Freud.
gGDy TIL that shops in Japan place orange balls of paint near the register as an anti-crime device. The staff throws the ball at the criminal, which explodes on impact and stains the criminal with distinctive orange paint for the police to easily identify.
epDnn TIL about Margaret Ives Abbott the first woman to win a medal in the modern Olympics, and also part of the only mother-daughter pair to compete in one Olympics. Margaret won at golf, her mother, Mary, came in seventh. Coinciding with the Paris Exposition, many were unaware they were in the Olympics.
OZv4 TIL that in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, originally the knights were going to ride real horses, but after it became clear that the film’s small budget would cover horses, they had them bang coconuts together instead to simulate hooves clattering.