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TIL Bear Grylls once rowed naked in a homemade bathtub for 22 miles down the Thames river to raise money for a buddy who lost his legs in a climbing accident.

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awKk9 TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.
61Ll TIL in order to game Texas’ “Top 10% Rule”, students have been known to transfer to less competitive high schools for easier chances of automatic admission
wLkp7 TIL of death sentence with reprieve, a punishment in which the criminal is given a two year suspended sentence before execution. By abstaining from additional crimes during the two years, the criminal can reduce the sentence to life imprisonment, or, by committing good deeds, a fixed-term sentence.
a4AL TIL: to counter terrorism during 2004 bus bombings in Israel, bus drivers used squirt guns to spray pig fat on suspected bombers; this way they refuse to detonate and meet allah unclean.
WkE8B TIL a Japanese snowboard champion became a porn star, and recently came back to won national championship in Japan after only 4 days of training, and is now prepping for next winter Olympics