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TIL An Irish priest was offered free travel on the Titanic to New York but his superior told him to “GET OFF THAT SHIP”. The rest of his life he would tell people “it was the only time holy obedience ever saved a man’s life”.

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o4Vr TIL that Vishakanyas or ‘Poison damsels" were girls who were used as assasins.They were made poisonous by exposing them to low-intensity poison from a very young age. Their body fluids would be “poisoned” and sexual contact would thus be lethal to other humans.
KOlxQ TIL of Harry Daghlian, a 24 year-old physicist with the Manhattan Project. He accidentally dropped a brick into the centre of a plutonium core and exposed himself to a lethal dose of radiation, dying 25 days after the accident.
wA6 TIL: There are Cat Cafés in Japan and Taiwan where people can pay hourly to play with cats and have drinks!
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yN8w TIL on average dolphins rape about 14 people a year