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TIL Metallica’s debut album, Kill Em’ All, was originally supposed to be named “Metal Up Your Ass”

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kJ0Ke TIL: In the 1864 war between Uruguay and Brazil, a Uruguayan ship, out of cannonballs, loaded their cannons with stale Dutch cheese and successfully shattered the main mast of a Brazilian ship, causing the admiral to retreat.
BrYbD TIL Doreen Lioy sent serial killer Richard Ramirez 75 letters in 11 years while he was in jail. The minute she saw his mugshot on the TV, she noticed something “captivating” in his eyes. Ramirez proposed to her, and the courtship continued for the next 9 years before the two got married.
W6aN TIL half the nitrogen in your body derives from a synthetic process, invented by two Chemists in 1909. Their discovery is keeping nearly half of Earth’s population alive today.
50O8 TIL there exists a variation of soccer where 3 teams face each other at the same time.
Gwj TIL there is a fish that has the dental characteristics of a human and has killed people by chewing their testicles off.