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TIL area of medicine devoted to farts is called flatology

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Mep5A TIL Joey Ramone, singer of the Ramones, was born with a parasitic twin attached to his back.
9gxM TIL Ben Franklin’s brother would not print any of 16-year-old Ben’s letters at the newspaper he published, so Ben invented a pseudonym, the widow Mrs. Silence Dogood. Readers thought she was a charming woman and several offered to marry her.
EBGX TIL: in 2009, a South African IT company had a carrier pigeon race against the country’s largest internet service provider, Telkom, over 80 km. In a two hour period, a 4GB flash drive was carried by Winston the pigeon and read, while only 4.2% of the data had been transferred by Telkom.
XKOk TIL That Dan Bilzerian was Kicked Out of Navy SEAL training 2 days from completion.
dDLbr TIL of the Battle of Tora Bora, where America lost Osama bin Laden.