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TIL the government in Azerbaijan decided to spend close to 1 billion dollars on a song contest instead of giving their citizens clean water.

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DQvoY TIL Semen can trigger anaphylactic allergic reactions in some people if their partner had recently eaten the allergen food
Gkg1 TIL that Stephen Colbert is a huge J.R.R. Tolkien geek and has encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. Director Peter Jackson invited him to the set of the film and put him head to head with his Tolkien expert, and Stephen won.
JlQ1 TIL The Plantaris is a small muscle in your calf that is believed to be used by our ancestors to grip with their feet. It is so weak that it is considered functionally obsolete and arguments have been made that humans are evolving it out. It is absent in 7-10% of the population worldwide.
KAr4 TIL the first thing sold on the Internet (‘94) was a pizza from Pizza Hut
roXW TIL in 1930 two brothers created the first car radio which was called a “motorized victrola” which they shortened to Motorola.