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x6oRw Today I learned the first vasectomy on record was performed on a dog in 1823.
Z8OPD TIL: In the past, the soccer balls were brown or white. The black pentagons were introduced for television at the 1970 World Cup to show viewers the position and rotation of the ball on black and white television.
yElp TIL that thre is a small village named Shingo in Japan, which by its inhabitants is believed to be the last resting place of Jesus. They believe that instead of Jesus his brother Isukiri died on the cross and Jesus fled to Japan to become a rice farmer.
woKb7 TIL antivenom is made by injecting small amounts of venom into farm animals until they produce antibodies which are then extracted via drawing the animal’s blood.
DQVBP TIL that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the sound of the snakes was a combination of someone running their fingers through a warm cheese casserole and a skateboard on wet sponges.