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TIL of ferret-legging, a sport where people try to keep live ferrets in their pants for as long as possible.

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695Em TIL Freud liked cocaine so much that he would give it to friends and family as a gift.
ZpRaD TIL that during his Alps crossing, Hannibal faced a nearly impassable path so steep even soldiers struggled. Undeterred, he had his men build a road through rubble, allowing his army and war elephants to pass, though the elephants were near death from hunger after three days of backbreaking labor.
1KdX TIL of Kurt Gerstein, a top SS Officer who secretly tried warning the Allies of the horrors he witnessed at the Nazi Death Camps. He later committed suicide after they failed to listen to him.
E1PZP TIL the first (pre-dynamite) suicide bombing occurred when a female Tamil army commander, Kuyili, covered herself in ghee, lit herself on fire, and walked into the armory of the british east india company, thereby securing a victory for her queen
b9PYj TIL...It costs approximately $7.5 million in funding per astronaut per day to be aboard the International Space Station