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TIL that there is a tribe in Papua New Guinea which has ritualized homosexuality and semen ingestion practice with boys

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N7KKJ TIL Eric Idle, of Monty Python, wrote a science fiction novel about a robot trying to understand human comedy.
VBYNm TIL that during a college football game in US, many people gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof collapsed, spilling fans onto a furnace. Twenty-three people were killed but the game continued. The event is known as The Thanksgiving Day Disaster.
kA4m TIL that peregrine falcons have a notch in their beak that’s made for severing the spinal cord in its prey.
nWyNY TIL that the last known cuneiform inscription, an astronomical text, was written in 75 AD
4XXQN You know, just in case