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TIL that despite having a 95% Muslim population, Christmas is an extremely popular holiday in the west African nation of Senegal, which has a tradition of Muslims and Christians adopting each other's holidays

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e0v05 TIL that schistosomiasis, a parasite infection that causes bloody urine, was so common in Egypt that French doctors traveling with Napoleon during his 1798 campaign described Egypt as the only country where men menstruate.
j9lM TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.
kOeK5 TIL Hackers broke into Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account. They say his password was 'dadada'.
ZpMPD TIL Up until 2014, the semi-fictional location of the Yakuza game series (神室町) had its own pseudo-radio station with the protagonists' original voice actors for moderators
m1kGo TIL a baseball stadium organ player was ejected from a game after playing "3 Blind Mice" in response to what he thought was a bad call by the umpire