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TIL world's largest pillow fight involved 7,681 participants in Minnesota.

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AVeo TIL In the month before the ancient Olympics no wars were permitted so that spectators could travel from across Greece unharmed,
Wk9P4 TIL Roman poet Catullus' Carmen 16 was censored until the 20th century for beginning with the line Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo ("I will sodomize you and face-fuck you").
e0raJ TIL blobfish don't normally look all blobby and only look like that when they're pulled from the deep ocean. Its due to the pressure difference
b9RQ TIL Wind turbines can kill bats without impact, they die because their lungs explode from a drop in air pressure.
VBLmk TIL there’s a species of jellyfish that can reverse their age once reaching adulthood