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TIL Ancient Greeks used to go to the gym naked – the word ‘gymnasium’ means “school for naked exercise”.

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vPNxR TIL The thirteenth-century friar, Albert's Magnus, publicized eating roasted wolf penis as the ultimate cure for Erectile Dysfunction.
loYyV TIL Chevrolet Corvette Z06 buyers have a $5,000 option of going to the Corvette factory and putting their car's engine together with the help of a Chevy technician. The engine is then fitted with a plaque bearing the owner/builder's name and assembly date.
wX88 TIL that the rights to Peter Pan are owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital and that it is one of very few novels to have had its copyright extended due to the amount of funding it provides the hospital
ep0gD TIL A WW1 forerunner to cruise missiles, the pilotless Kettering Bug was designed to strike targets at a range of 75 miles.
e0Lwb TIL Leslie Nielsen regularly carried a fart machine with him and often used it during televised interviews