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TIL that male soldiers in the German military started growing breasts on their left sides due to repeated smacking of their rifles against their chests during precision drills. The focused strikes stimulated the production of hormones causing breast tissue to grow in over 70% of the soldiers.

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b6exp TIL The US Marshals recovered North Carolina’s copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights in 2003 via a sting operation after it was stolen from the State Capitol by a union soldier following the civil war.
v1xm4 TIL why the cut apple turns brown. It turns out that the enzymes and polyphenols in the apple react with oxygen; now some apples on the market will not change color because they have been genetically modified.
wL01M TIL that cleaning a cat's litter box can get you Toxoplasmosis if the cat is infected. While pregnant, it can cause your baby to be born with cerebral palsy, seizures, and mental retardation.
Avn4 TIL that in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, 27 British warships faced off against 33 French and Spanish warships. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost.
WkO5Y TIL about the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was signed in 1928 and made war illegal, even though the pact had no mechanisms for enforcement