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TIL giraffes fight by swinging their necks at each other.

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AE74 TIL there is a sport that combines chess and boxing. It’s called chessboxing
XE6rj TIL about The Epic If Gilgamesh. The oldest surviving work of literature in existence dating back over 4,000 years. It features a demigod hunting for immortality and an account of a great flood very simular to the biblical one.
rN6gx TIL a 2016 study found mushrooms to be the safest recreational drug. Of the more than 12,000 people in the study who reported taking mushrooms, only 0.2% needed emergency medical treatment.
yQYlp TIL Researchers submitted absurd fake studies to several feminist academic journals, to check their quality. Examples included copied passages of "Mein Kampf", a report on moon meetings with vulva shrines and chaining "priviliged" pupils. Several papers were published and one was called "exemplary".
dLEK TIL that doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually