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TIL that there are ethnic groups in the African Congo Basin that do not have a word for and are confused by the concept of masturbation.

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xEG5 TIL two Bangladeshi newspapers published an article using the Onion as a source. “We didn’t know the Onion was not a real news site.”
mJDv TIL during the Napoleonic Wars the English Navy inflicted over 3 times as many casualties on the French Navy than the French Navy inflicted on the English Navy, in part because French gun crews fired high to disable enemy masts & rigging while English gun crews fired low into enemy gun crews & hulls
XE5Q8 TIL that in 2008 a festival known as "Festival of the fuck bands" was held; it featured bands such as "Fucked up", "Holy fuck", "Fuck buttons" and "Fuck the writers" and was held in the town of Fucking, Austria.
Oo6g4 TIL that Pheidippides, the man who inspired the modern marathon, initially ran 150 miles over two days to request help from Sparta before running back. He then ran the 25 miles to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon
O64R TIL that Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was killed in California by a bomb. Three suspects linked with the Jewish Defense League fled to Israel before they could be arrested.