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TIL: Country music became popular in America partially through a pirate radio station of a quack doctor based out Kansas who built a fortune on a procedure to implant goat testicles into men's scrotums.

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renW TIL that “forlorn hope” (the name of the first wave of attacking soldiers in battle, who take the most casualties) is actually a clumsy mistranslation of the Dutch phrase “verloren hoop,” meaning “lost troop.”
0w1oy TIL that most mammals take 12 seconds to poop, no matter their size. Larger animals have bigger feces, but also excrete more mucus, accelerating defecation. It is speculated speedy voiding is helpful in avoiding predators.
OG0YY TIL Byzantine emperor Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer" after the battle of Kleidion divided 15,000 war prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.
eOyg TIL In 1965 two astronauts on their way back to orbit played a joke on mission control, pretending to spot Santa in space.
Edv0 TIL after France refused to deliver five missile boats Israel bought from them, Israel executed a heist to steal the boats and piloted them back to Israel