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TIL pouring water on your head cools you down more effectively than drinking

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DW6P TIL that when Giacomo Casanova was forty years old, he purchased a thirteen-year-old girl in St. Petersburg as a sexual slave
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kORw4 TIL that a baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after an off-duty rescue worker performed CPR on it. The man had worked in rescue for 26 years and performed dozens of CPR attempts on humans, but the elephant was the first victim he had ever managed to revive