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TIL It's illegal to wrestle a bear in Missouri

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ZleD TIL that a North Korean man holds the world record for the clean and jerk in the 56kg event. He became only the fifth man to ever clean and jerk three times his own body weight. He won gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic games with this feat.
9Y8aM TIL that cats have almost twice the amount of neurons as dogs and can be allergic to humans.
Rvp6 TIL a $1 bill received in a balloon from South Korean activists buys 9 pounds of corn, and is like winning the lottery for some in North Korea.
wLRRJ TIL In French Polynesia, there are two islands separated by a bridge called Huahine Nui and Huahine Iti. This roughly translates to "Big Vagina" and "Little Vagina".
j6V1v TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)