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TIL There is an animal that looks and acts like a rock with a red fleshy inside.

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695Xm TIL McDonald's in India do not serve beef.
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]
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YpEQW TIL that soviets had nuclear tractors, aka Project Gamma Kolos, in an attempt to mutate wheat seeds before sowing them
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