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TIL Hippopotamus meat is considered a delicacy in Africa, and has a sweet taste.

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dVlK TIL when Yuri Gagarin landed after his famous spaceflight, the only people nearby were a farmer and her daughter. He looked like frightening in his orange space suit, so he said “Don’t be afraid, I’m a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!”
PYvNG TIL that deer antlers are pretty much bone cancer. '"Deer antlers [are] using essentially a controlled form of bone cancer growth," says Edward Davis[...]. The involvement of the tumor-promoting genes isn't surprising, he says; what is surprising is the involvement of the cancer-controlling genes.'
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Q8Ok TIL tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
PYo8L TIL Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to be accepted at a medical school in the US, because the students thought her application was a prank from a rival school and voted to let her attend.