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TIL that zippers are the leading cause of penile injuries

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LQ0Er TIL that when Johannes Rebmann, the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro, published his discovery in 1849, it was dismissed as a malaria-induced hallucination because it was believed that snow at this latitude was impossible. It took 12 more years for scholars to accept the mountain's existence.
p87oG TIL Flash Gordon Sam Jones didn't want to live off of conventions money, so he became a bodyguard and hostage extraction specialist. His first mission was rescuing people left behind after Katrina.
1mXd TIL Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally “Brown Skinned Girl”
wLXrJ TIL that during the 80 Years War the Dutch defeated the invading Spanish by flooding their cities and farm lands. When winter arrived, Dutch soldiers used ice skates to quickly advance, fire muskets and retreat quickly to reload. The Spanish were then lured to, and fell through, thin ice.
b540 TIL in Bizarro World, the “opposite world” of the DC universe, the only sane person on the planet is Bizarro Joker