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TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)

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mxQov TIL that all bananas are slightly radioactive. All Potassium-rich food contains small levels of radiation, but don't worry. You would only experience symptoms if you ate 274 bananas a day for 7 years.
jNZ0R TIL The word 'cactuses' is the English plural to cactus and 'cacti' is the Latin plural. Dictionaries list both and neither are right or wrong.
69mkQ TIL Elvis was an Actual 8th Degree Black Belt in Karate
4k91N TIL that In Strasbourg, Alsace (now part of France), there was a strange phenomenon in 1518 where people started dancing uncontrollably for days without rest. It may have been due to stress-induced hysteria or poisoning. This phenomenon is now referred to as The Dancing Plague of 1518.
wLQk1 TIL that a cat licking somebody may indicate that the cat thinks that the person is its responsibility and part of its family and so it treats the person the way its mother treated it. It thinks the person is his pet, rather than the other way round.