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TIL the little mermaid should have ended with Ariel dissolving into a foamy mess - including a link to other not so happy endings to other Disney stories

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WQpA TIL men who pee while sitting down more effectively empty their bladders thereby reducing the risk of prostate cancer.
neMn9 TIL it has been 27 years since a Canadian team has won the Stanley cup. With the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. The last opportunity a Canadian team had to win the cup was in 2011, when the Vancouver Canucks lost in game 7 to the Boston Bruins.
d8J69 TIL the US Air Force uses enormous anime-style swords to honor officers
xVeA7 TIL- Boston University did a neuropathologically study on 111 former NFL Players. 110 out of 111 were diagnosed with CTE, the degenerative disease caused by repeated blows to the head.
VM8y4 TIL that in 19th century England, if your corpse wasn’t claimed in a hospital or if you died in a place where you couldn’t be identified, you might have been sold to a school or hospital so doctors could practice anatomy. Some priests even sold bodies to gravediggers who sold them to hospitals.