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TIL Ronda Rousey tries to have “as much sex as possible” before a match since she says it boosts testosterone levels.

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9blQ TIL After President Carter retired, he started an effort to eradicate the Guinea Worm, which infected millions of people with worms that slowly and painfully burrow out of the body over 3 months. By 2001, the infection rate was reduced by 98%, with 80% of the remaining cases in the Sudan warzone.
jNWON TIL in 1917, Salvation Army volunteers provided supplies and baked goods to American soldiers. The women fried doughnuts in the soldiers' helmets and were known as "Doughnut Lassies" popularizing doughnuts in the USA. National Doughnut Day is now celebrated on the first Friday of June every year.
xNw5 TIL the Shogun who ruled Japan 1680–1709 introduced animal rights laws and fed dogs in public kennels rice and fish at the taxpayers’ expense.
9w5V6 TIL the alligator from Happy Gilmore is alive and thriving in Colorado
PY68n TIL that an distraught Elephant in India went on a retaliatory rampage, killing and even consuming multiple people after her calf was killed by villagers.