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TIL - More people every year die by hippopotamus than by sharks, lions, and bears combined.

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4XZVR TIL that when a trailer for "The Exorcist" was shown in theaters, it was reportedly so scary that people ran out of the theater , the trailer was banned, although you can watch it on YouTube.
mZ6x TIL that a female psychoanalyst from from 1940s coined the terms “womb-envy” and “vagina envy” in response to the idea of “penis envy” to describe man’s need to dominate women because of jealousy for what they cannot do biologically.
GApv4 TIL Medicine in ancient Rome was highly influenced by ancient Greek medicine, but also developed new practices through knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus combined with use of the treatment of diet, regimen, along with surgical procedures.
VM70B TIL President Dwight D Eisenhower had four American heroes and one was General Robert E Lee. He hung four portraits in his office and one was Lee's; the others were President Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, President Washington and Lee.
QwGL TIL that there is a soccer team in Spain that since 1912 has only signed players who were born or raised in the Basque Country (where less than 7% of Spain’s population live). Despite that, the team is one of the most successful teams in Spain, and is one of the only teams never to be relegated