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TIL even though professional wrestling is deemed “fake” the sport has a much greater track record for personal injury than MMA

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D100J TIL: Sucking a King's nipples was an ancient Irish form of submission. Cutting off a royal descendant's nipples made him ineligible for kingship.
Jxr1 TIL of ‘Mangia’, an Atari 2600 video game in which a mother force feeds her son with pasta until he explodes. The boy can feed animals with the food, but if the mother sees him do so, she brings out three times as much pasta as punishment. 'Mangia’ is among the rarest video games for collectors.
xVYd7 TIL: During WWII, the Germans developed the first select fire rifle: the StG44. However, automatic fire was ineffective so German soldiers were directed to only fire the weapon in semi-automatic, except in emergencies.
kOjVm TIL that the energy used to produce a single metal straw is equivalent to 90 plastic straws and the carbon emitted is equivalent to about 150. You'd have to use your metal straw 150 times to break even before it actually becomes beneficial to the environment.
QNJRk TIL Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world