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TIL testicles have taste buds that can taste Umami.

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MeWgK TIL Kiribati weightlifter Meamea Thomas, was killed in 2013 while trying to save a bicycle rider about to be hit by a speeding car which was drunk driving.
M99W TIL - That reindeer aren’t native to Alaska. Sheldon Jackson purchased them from Siberia to help with the food shortages in the late 1800s. He brought in 16 and by the late 1930s there were 640,000.
awKk9 TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.
MepGK TIL that drivers with any type of bumper sticker, window decal, or personalized license plate are more likely to be aggressive and territorial
br07 TIL: The City of Anarchy (also called the Walled City) was the most densely populated city on earth until 1994. The community thrived with little to no government intervention, and citizens developed groups that would maintain the city for no profit.