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TIL The song “La Cucaracha” Is about Cockroaches, Marijuana and Death.

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XEpbX TIL of Dashrath Manjhi, an Indian man who manually carved a path 110 m long, 9.1 m wide and 7.6 m deep through a hill using only a hammer and chisel over the course of 22 years, shortening travel from his village, Gehlaur, to the town of Gaya from 55km to 15km.
nW6D7 TIL that Leonard Nemoy directed "Three Men and A Baby".
DNgV TIL that male dolphins have been known to keep females hostage and not feed them until the female agrees to have sex with them.
m8kM TIL Muay Thai Kick boxers go through bone training by creating hairline fractures in their shins that eventually heal becoming harder than rock
4XY1w TIL that the deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft).