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TIL Hulk Hogan claimed in his autobiography that he once wrestled 400 days in a year because of his frequent trips back and forth from the USA and Japan

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69y9l TIL Cats helped the Persians win the Battle of Pelusium against the Egyptians in 525 BCE. The Persians used cats as hostages and painted the image of the Egyptian goddess Bastet on their shields. The Egyptians were afraid of injuring the cats, so they surrendered.
gMAg8 TIL a Dutch maintenance man came up with the idea of baking a drawing of a fly into porcelain urinal bowls to reduce urinal spillage.
ga8 TIL That the male spiders Sexual organ works faster as well as more efficiently when it is detached by the female thus killing the male, It’s called the eunuch phenomenon
X9KP TIL that Dick is a nickname for Richard because, in Medieval times, one of the customs for coming up with a nickname was to create a rhyme or swap a letter. So Richard became Rick, which rhymes with Dick or Hick. Only Dick has stuck around as a proper name.
J1vaQ TIL Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun)