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TIL that my country is 2nd least satisfied with love lives.

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mRpM TIL “Chimney Sweeps” were originally enslaved children who would shimmy up a chimney with a cleaning brush - and oftentimes they would get stuck in the process and die. The deaths were so common that brick masons developed a technique to open chimneys and extract bodies quickly.
Yp4Bx TIL of Panyee FC, a club in Southern Thailand that plays on a floating pitch.
KOmQR TIL there's skincare for fishes.
R5xm1 TIL of "Blue" and "Chirps," a cat and bird who became friends after being adopted and nursed back to health by two men serving life sentences at Folsom State Prison
dr47 TIL In 1914, an ad ran in a London newspaper for a Trans-Antarctic exploration, the ad read “MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON”.