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TIL "Road Rash" is an actual medical name for a type of "friction burn" that motorcyclists would commonly face.

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VMkAG TIL in 1989, MLB broadcaster Jim Rooker said he'd walk back to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia if the Pirates blew a 10-run lead. When the Phillies came back and won 15-11, Rooker hosted a a 300-plus-mile charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
69QeW TIL some male butterflies mark girl butterflies with a repulsive stench while doing sex in order to deter competing male rivals
j6dBM TIL that woodsman Francis Wharton made dentures from a dead deer, and then ate the deer with its own teeth
ppY4 TIL after a neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile stretch of highway in Missouri, the state renamed it the “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway”
awM4L TIL that in 2006 after a man shot 10 Amish children then committed suicide, the Amish went to the his family to offer them support. They also set up a charitable fund for his family and during the shooter's funeral they surrounded the family to provide them privacy from the media.