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TIL While running, breasts don’t just bounce; they do figure-eights.

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yAbl TIL that all Sikh places of worship serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religious, regional, cultural, racial, caste, or class affiliations.
9YQeD TIL When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, he didn't have any toys or TV so he would spend his time roaming the countryside unsupervised. One day, he found a deep dark hole. He grabbed a lantern and discovered a miniature cave system. This experience formed the spiritual basis of The Legend of Zelda
GYR91 TIL that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame paid $6,000 for the preservation of Lady Gaga's meat dress which included treatment with bleach, formaldehyde and detergent to kill any bacteria which had formed during the time before it was frozen.
4kx5o TIL enslaved Africans worked on the ships that transported other Africans into slavery. These men, 230 in all, were used onboard to communicate with the slaves and to translate between Captain and slaver, and to alleviate some of the fears that newly boarded slaves had, such as fear of being eaten.
x6Xgo TIL that in addition to using the stars, Micronesians navigated the Pacific by recognizing and interpreting different type of ocean swells, even using them to pinpoint the existence of islands hundreds of miles away. Marshallese islanders additionally made stick maps of these ocean swell patterns.