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TIL It is a tradition to whip women on Easter Monday in Czechia and Slovakia

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jNk5n TIL that Kool Aid used to be called Fruit Smack, and that Kool Aid actually thrives during the Great Depression, unlike other businesses at the time
ZyKB TIL rubbing your dog’s ear sends nerve impulses to pituitary glands that secrete endorphins, pain-killing, feel-good types of hormones that make your dog so relaxed throughout his/her whole body that he/she becomes essentially “high” off of his/her own hormones.
Wkkd4 TIL Steve-O was nearly mauled by a lion while shooting one of the one of the first Nintendo Ds commercials
vkbL TIL : In 2014 a cat saved its five-year-old owner (Ethan) from bullies, the bullies were teasing Ethan and when one of them shoved him on the ground the cat jumped on the boy’s chest and scared him off.Ever since the incident the cat sleeps outside Ethan’s bedroom to keep a watch.
0wBgy TIL honeybees form a ball around their queen to kill her by overheating her to death if they are no longer able to make offspring, and they do the same to enemy hornets and invading queens who are rejected as a new queen