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TIL "blue balls" is a real disease known as Epididymal Hypertension

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8aMnZ TIL that MOH recipient and Navy SEAL Micheal Monsoor threw his body on a grenade to protect two squadmates. He was the only one that would have been able to escape the grenade. He died but the two SEALs survived
MMnm TIL that the world’s energy needs could be met by setting aside three percent of the world’s oceans for seaweed farming.
a84gM TIL Oppenheimer attempted to poison his tutor with cyanide
neEL7 TIL that in 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.
X00eX TIL the last monolingual Irish speaker died in 1998