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TIL An Islamic cleric permitted a jihadi to have anal sex in oder to widen his anus to fit a suicide bomb

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PYZ4n TIL How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name, between 1865 and 1910, 40 percent of the South's population suffered from hookworms. Thousands of worms could live in a person at one time. These parasites and the constant bloodsucking made an infected person pale, tired and slow, leading to stunted growth.
OogK7 TIL that aerial dogfights were fought with pistols before they figured out how to properly install machine guns into planes.
woD9P TIL North American beavers have 40 chromosomes, while European beavers have 48. The two species are not genetically compatible. Only one stillborn kit was born of attempted hybridization.
ZKMa TIL there’s a man who uses his hands and feet to climb rocks, buildings, and 100-foot walls like a monkey – and it started with a suicide attempt.
1dK7 TIL that Helium is named after the greek god Helios because the first evidence of it’s existence was found not on earth but in the sun during a solar eclipse in 1868. It was not formally identified on earth until 1895.