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TIL taser is an acronym (Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle)

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6yjJ TIL that you should not use flame or salt to remove a leech, as it may regurgitate its stomach contents into the wound.
xYag TIL humans are the greatest endurance-runners in the animal kingdom. Over a long enough distance a human can outrun any other animal on this planet.
9G6M TIL that Inuits really have a term that means Eskimo brother: “aipak”, or “other me”, describing a positive relationship with someone who has slept with his wife.
g1Ay TIL Flickr recruits coders with ads hidden in its website’s source code
16v0d TIL about Tehching Hsieh, a performance artist who jumped off buildings, went homeless voluntarily and punched a time clock every hour for a year in the name of art.