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TIL about The Soft Serve Wars of 2017 where two New York ice-cream vendors competed for turf. Mister Softee hired a detective agency to spy on rival --New York City Ice-cream. NYCIC were notorious for telling Mister Softee employees “there will be problems” if they venture onto their alleged turf.

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ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs
E158w TIL Nicolas Cage was considered for the role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler. When taken to a live event, he thought wrestling was real like UFC! In the end, the crew had a meeting where it was determined that Cage looked too healthy for the part, so the role went to Mickey Rourke.
59Ek TIL that in Middle Age Britain, the church taught that for ‘Godly Congress’ both the man and the woman needed to produce sperm. The only way a woman could produce sperm was to orgasm. All 'ungodly’ sex was frowned upon, so most sex involved maximum effort to produce a strong female orgasm.
KYwXJ TIL that the 3 Ninjas franchise was made in part by a South Korean Director, Shin Sang-ok, who was kidnapped and held captive for 8 years by Kim Jong-il.
78k8p TIL that following Denmark's defeat in the Second Schleswig War, Christian IX offered that all of Denmark become part of the German confederation and thus Denmark remain united with Schleswig and Holstein. This proposal was rejected by Bismarck.