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TIL, that in December 2011, a US court ruled rape an occupational hazard in the US armed force.

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b5wE TIL the Amazon Rainforest loses about 22,000 tons of the phosphorus in its soil due to floods every year. The Amazon remains so fertile because the dust of a dried up lake in the Sahara Desert traveling through the atmsophere feeds the Amazon’s plants the phosphorus it lost.
jeKE TIL the first level of Super Mario Bros (NES) was precisely designed so as to teach a new player that getting mushrooms was good, blocks could be hit, and jumping on gumbas wouldn’t hurt you, by making these actions almost impossible to avoid.
yODX TIL in a scene in the sitcom Three’s Company, John Ritter’s scrotum falls out of his shorts. Nickelodeon deleted the scene for reruns. In response, Ritter said: “I’ve requested that (Nickelodeon) air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”
jLPM TIL that Metallica was the first band to play on all 7 continents.
x66Qk TIL Gunslinger effect, The quantum physicist Niels Bohr deducted that in a gun dual, the person who draws first loses.