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TIL of Mark Roberts, a man from England who has streaked at more than 565 international events. He has his own set of 'rules' for streaking: don't interrupt the play of a game, be prepared to spend an evening in jail, have a good lawyer on hand, and don't eat spicy food the night before a streak

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b67N7 TIL that because of their flexible ankles, red pandas are one of the few animals that can climb down trees head-first.
XEjJk TIL: lakes near ocean coasts have a slightly higher salt content because of wind. Wind transfers salt off the ocean to fresh water lakes, altering the ecosystem and hostng unique forms of microbial life
w5gY TIL: No one knows what to do with a Quran Saddam Hussein had written in his own blood, which is a sin, since destroying it is also a sin.
6EJE8 TIL about the "Mariko Aoki effect", which is when people have an urge to poop caused by visiting a bookstore
e0dG4 TIL of Joey Deacon, a man with severe cerebral palsy who was introduced to the UK public in 1981 by tv show Blue Peter as part of the Year of the Disabled. His mannerisms started a craze of kids calling each other Joey Deacon when they’d done something stupid that lasted for years.