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TIL that the amount of vasectomies increase as much as fifty percent leading up to March Madness, so men have an excuse to stay home and couch-ridden.

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pYvjG TIL American dislike bean-y taste of soymilk
Ad1l TIL that in 1799 Aaron Burr raised $2mil to provide drinking water to Manhattan. He used $1.9mil of that to found a bank instead, and the water he did provide was often contaminated. NYC did not have a clean water source until 1842. The bank he founded is now known as JPMorgan Chase.
BgQBb TIL: The Sateré-Mawé tribe coming of age ritual involves gathering bullet ants, weaving them into a glove, sedating them, and then putting on the glove an hour later so that when the ants wake up, they are furious. Boys have to do this about 20 times at age 13 before becoming a man.
P18yG TIL The Co-founder of the New York Times, Henry Jarvis Raymond, is also Co-founder of the Republican Party
eoKL TIL that popular animal renamings such as “danger noodle” and “trash panda” are actual formal literary devices known as “kennings” (which have existed since the days of the Norse Eddas)