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TIL Tsar Nicholas II had a very fit body according to pictures taken in 1912 that show him swimming nude during a trip to Finland.

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8e7RX TIL that the echidna urethra starts as a single tube, but toward the end of the penis it splits into two and each of these then splits again – resulting in each of the four branches ending up at one of the four glans.
kORMm TIL that Jimi Hendrix served in the army but got kicked out because they caught him masturbating on duty
gMpND TIL in 1998, a married couple was left behind during a diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Two days passed before anyone realized what had happened. Despite a 5-day search, the couple was never found. A dive slate was later recovered which read "... rescue us before we die..."
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