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TIL that Ottoman military music, as a genre, is alive and well to this day

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Z8KvR TIL about the cookiecutter shark. The name refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine life, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies!
jnpv TIL that there is a deleted scene in from Hancock (2008) in which Will Smith’s Character Super Ejaculates through the roof of his trailer.
MebZA TIL cashews are in the same family as poison ivy and they cannot be sold in their shells because they can cause a similar itchy skin reaction due to a chemical called urushiol
gQM8 TIL Qatar’s 2022 World Cup will take more lives than 9/11 due to horrible working conditions for migrant workers building stadiums and infrastructure.
9YnLr TIL President Jimmy Carter’s son smoked weed with Willie Nelson on the roof of The White House