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TIL On Valentines day Roman priests use to kill goats and take their skin, soak them in blood and go around streets slapping women and crops with them in order to make them fertile for the year

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jNKRp TIL that US nuclear power plants, by law, are built strong enough to withstand the impact of a fully-loaded commercial airliner without rupturing
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