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TIL: Johnny Knoxville comes from significant inbreeding.

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wen1 TIL that early Protestants objected to priestly celibacy on the grounds that it promoted masturbation. According to Martin Luther, “To say it crudely but honestly, if it doesn’t go into a woman, it goes into your shirt.”
awoly TIL Robotic assisted surgeries have been done for more than 10 years. The Dr sits at a station in the operating room with a 3-D display and uses joystick-like controls to manipulate robotic arms, but does not physically touch the patient to perform the surgery.
R7RX4 TIL the voice of Ike on South Park is Trey Parker’s 3 year old daughter Betty.
R75Gw TIL between 2011 and 2014, the US Department of Defense spent $43 million for a single gas station only a few cars could even use in Afghanistan.
Y70LP TIL the British House of Lords is the only upper house of any bicameral parliament in the world that is larger than its lower house.