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TIL Mr. Bubble, bubble bath, is suspected to have caused a generation of women to have a life-long predisposition to UTI’s.

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Me8wA TIL there is a Filipino carpenter who has been voluntarily crucified every year since 1985 on Good Friday. He drives four-inch nails into both hands and feet and is then lifted on a wooden cross for around five minutes.
wLKPJ TIL the Nazi greeting was so widespread in Germany by the mid-1930s that department store employees greeted customers with, "Heil Hitler, how may I help you?"
6pbJ TIL someone has been serial pooping in the holes of Norway’s Stavanger Golf Club for 10 years. The person even has a couple of favorite holes.
EggNP TIL that an alligator can go over 2 years without eating.
loV5K TIL that orchids are named for the Greek órkhis, literally meaning "testicle." The name is for the shape of the root. NSFW