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TIL that a longstanding custom in Denmark for people who are still unmarried by their 25th birthday is to have their friends and family tie them to a lamppost and douse them in cinnamon. If in 5 years they're still unmarried, this gets upgraded to pepper.

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xV9R0 TIL about Stone Man's Syndrome, a disabling disorder with no cure or treatment in which the body repairs damaged connective tissue with bone structure. Surgical removal of the extra bone growths has been shown to cause the body to "repair" the affected area with even more bone.
VMlPZ TIL that September 9th is the most common birthday in the United States
8ebP TIL that a German soldier named Fritz Christen stood his ground for 3 straight days and knocked out 13 Soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers single handedly.
KO8d4 TIL that Carlos “Kaiser” Raposo, a Brazilian “soccer player”, managed to con his way to a career that lasted 20 years despite never actually playing a game.
GB9j TIL that Rihanna was sued for her use of the sample “Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa” in her song “Please Don’t Stop the Music” because she only got permission for using it via Michael Jackson from his use of the sample in “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin” and not from the original artist Manu Dibango.