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TIL a man rescued a crocodile and they became inseparable best friends.

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neOQb TIL a man was admitted to the hospital because he was vomiting blood and had cramps. Doctors began surgery after finding an ulcer caused by a 9" plastic fork that he had swallowed over a decade earlier.
epkn4 TIL in 1858, as Congress was debating slavery in Kansas at 2:00AM, a large fight of 30+ Members erupted on the House floor. After the sitting house speaker banged his gavel and threatened to arrest noncompliant Members, the "melee dissolved into a chorus of laughs and jeers."
0wR11 TIL that in the US, parking spaces take up about 25,000 square miles of land nationwide, an area roughly the size of the state of West Virginia
ANLja TIL that Little Mole (Krteček), a series of Czech cartoons from the 1950s, has been the first animated character sent into space (in 2011)
6XLZ TIL A 20 year-old woman was kept as a (sex-)slave in a box for 23 hours a day between 1977 and 1984; at one point she was permitted to even visit her family, yet still returned to her captors.