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TIL in Kyrgystan they play polo with a headless goat

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a88Kb TIL that in 1995 when a lawsuit was brought against Shell Oil for the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 men in Nigeria, Shell settled out of court for $15.5 million.
lBRA TIL that mountain goats aren’t actually goats. They are antelopes.
Bgd8K TIL Due to a WWII shortage of copper, the US military requested over 14,000 tons of silver for electromagnetic coils to help enrich uranium. The Treasury department loaned them 12,300 tons. Later, over 99.964% of the silver was returned.
yWm8 TIL that 10-20% of Americans and a higher percent of Europeans are infected with a brain parasite from cats that makes them 2.5 times more likely to get in a car accident, changes personality traits, contributes to schizophrenia, and may cause sexual attraction to cat urine.
ed6D TIL Rob Lowe videotaped himself having sex with a 16 year old girl, he was 24 at the time. It was one of the first celebrity sex tapes