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TIL that eating nuts improves your sperm count and quality

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v1Y84 TIL Mythbusters hosts Adam and Jamie built a combat robot for the show Robot Wars. It was so effective that it often sent pieces of its opponent's bodywork over the shield walls of the arena into the crowd, and after two fights the show's insurance company deemed the bot "too hazardous" to compete.
5YGmP TIL Berlin redrew its district borders because of an old man’s garden
NX5rN TIL of the Chain De Puys, a group of relatively active volcanoes in mainland France that last erupted about 5000 years ago. Before they were identified as volcanoes, geologists originally believed they were giant piles of Ancient Roman mining waste.
11wd TIL a “rainmaker” was hired in 1916 to end a drought in San Diego. He was so successful he flooded the city, killing 50. Turns out he had likely developed an early form of cloud seeding.
nW71P TIL there's a dog obesity crisis in the United Kingdom