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TIL About Hyraxes: Fanged African Mammals Resembling Marmots, but which are Far More Closely Related to Elephants and Manatees!

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D100J TIL: Sucking a King's nipples was an ancient Irish form of submission. Cutting off a royal descendant's nipples made him ineligible for kingship.
neXkW TIL: Jake Adelstein, a Jewish-American reporter who investigated the Japanese crime world for over a decade, convinced some of his underworld allies and former yakuza bosses to play Yakuza 3, a video game where you play as a former member of the yakuza. The former bosses ended up loving the game.
rRax TIL that stars twinkle because of turbulence in the atmosphere. As a result, if you see stars twinkling at a greater rate than normal, a storm front is probably moving in.
1aOk7 TIL that in 1942 a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania USA wrote to the White House suggesting the use of incendiary bombs attached to bats, what ensued was $2 million dollars in research and a burnt down Air Force base.
M5pV TIL A tradition of High Wycombe, UK, involves its Mayor being weighed annually in public on a specially erected scale, and their weight compared with the previous year. If it has increased, it means they have been indulging in too much good living at taxpayers’ expense, and the crowd jeers and boos