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TIL fist bumps have been scientifically proven to be a safer and more hygienic greeting than handshakes and high-fives

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nWB9Y TIL about Đorđe Martinović a Serb farmer from Kosovo who was at the center of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a bottle into his anus. The Martinović affair, as it became known, turned into a cause célèbre in Yugoslav politics.

Bjdr TIL the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only existed simultaneously for a period of less than 60 years.

XKbQ TIL Buddha thinks that being born as a female is a result of a bad Karma

p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.

QJbwL TIL the Eskimo logo on Alaskan Airlines planes is Chester Seveck, a reindeer herder who for years greeted tourists getting off the plane at Kotzebue, Alaska.