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TIL that zippers are the leading cause of penile injuries

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Ooywa TIL about .kkrieger, a fully 3D first person shooter which takes up only 96KB. This is about 60x smaller than the average selfie.
graML TIL that Militant Buddhist warrior monks were a major force during the warring states era of Japan with the ruler of kaga province being overthrown by them. They were only defeated when oda nobunaga waged a decade long war against them.
8mRa TIL: In an effort to fight oil well fires, Hungarian engineers recycled a Russian T-34 tank, and replaced the gun turret with two Mig-21 jet engines. The team would inject water into the exhaust of the engines and literally blow an oil well fire out. They called the device Big Wind.
XGLR TIL that Free Speech Does NOT Protect Cyberharassment… Online perpetrators can be criminally prosecuted for criminal threats, cyberstalking, cyberharassment, sexual invasions of privacy and bias intimidation. They can be sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
rRgad TIL humans are evolving faster than at any point in the past 250 years. Increasingly babies have shorter faces, smaller jaws, an extra artery in the arm, and extra bones in their legs and feet.