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TIL there is a monument in Russia dedicated to enema treatments.

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grKny TIL that in pre-modern China, poor families adopted girls to make sure their sons will be able to marry in future while other poor families with unwanted girls gave away their daughters.
1amnD TIL Tree Shrews are the only other mammal besides us humans that like eating spicy foods
R5NMw TIL Woodpeckers ram their bills at 25 times per second with 1200g’s acceleration.This research refutes the theory that their skulls act like helmets, absorbing the shock of impact. Instead, they minimize it to strike harder
MeAk7 TIL in 2016, residents of Barrow, Alaska voted to change the name of the city back to its original Inupiaq name, Utqiaġvik
0dk4p TIL The way a survey is conducted can skew the results. However, there are still a lot of people that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.