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TIL Royal eunuchs in Korea were castrated by applying human feces to the testicles, and having a dog bite them off.

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VMn7k TIL as President McKinley was dying, no one knew where Vice President Teddy Roosevelt was. When located in the wilderness he raced all night down mountain roads on a buckboard wagon in pitch black and pouring rains to be sworn in.
LewQ TIL the “soap” in soap operas comes from household cleaning companies sponsoring shows and controlling the ads that were shown
1akbV TIL that the Danube begins in the Black Forest and ends in the Black Sea.
xVWN0 TIL - Paul Stamets the character on Star Trek Discovery that helps transport the ship anywhere in the universe by accessing the “mycelium network” is a homage to the real life mycologist of the same name.
OGVkg TIL according to the (US) National Earthquake Information Center there are approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year, or 55 per day, with about 16 major earthquakes in any given year.