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TIL 750 American citizens serve in the Israeli Defense Force

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yPPv TIL “(You Gotta) Fight for your Right (to Party!)” by the Beastie Boys was written as a parody of other songs glorifying a partying lifestyle - an irony lost on many fans.
75E7 TIL the process of seppuku, suicide by disemboweling to preserve honor, eventually became so ritualized that the abdominal cut was not even needed. The samurai merely reached for a fan instead of a knife, and doing so signaled the merciful beheading strike by the samurai’s assistant.
loYW5 TIL A 27-year-old woman underwent six months of persistent cough, sputum and fever;antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis treatment before it was discovered that she had inhaled a condom into her lung
jNA1M TIL in 1969 The Beatles tried to make a Lord of the Rings movie starring themselves and directed by Stanley Kubrick. However, it was shut down by J.R.R. Tolkien who didn’t want The Beatles in the film.
4kVaJ TIL: Sperms were thought to move by wiggling their tails side-to-side, like eels, for 350 years. But research shows that they roll as they move forward like a spinning top.