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TIL: Rectal Tonsils

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BrVWb TIL about Anatoli Brouchkov - a Russian scientist who injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria just to see what would happen.
DQAEJ TIL that when Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi ordered an assault on the most holy Sikh temple, security services removed Sikhs from her bodyguards, including one of her favorite guards. She promptly reinstated him, and a few months later he assassinated her.
EgDO7 TIL Brendan Fraser is the first American-born actor to be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
X0vdQ TIL that you have to have proper authorization to press the x-ray button at the dentists. If you don't have any authorization and you press the button, there's an extremely likely chance that you get fired.
LQlwZ TIL that 150,000 people speak the native language of Corsican. Always thought they just speak French there.