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TIL that Humans and the Tree Shrew are the only known mammals that like spicy food.

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5RMD TIL - A man made a pain scale after being stung or bitten by over 80 different species of insects. The descriptions really bring it home.
y8kJ TIL nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.
OGJX1 TIL of Lei Tai. An Ancient Chinese form of Gladiatorial Combat/Entertainment where a local champion fighter builds a stage in the town square and invites anyone to knock him off the stage using any unarmed martial art. The winner then gets to "own" the stage, and issues a similar challenge as well.
KY0e6 TIL about the 1983 video game recession in which US video game revenue plummeted from $3.2B in 1983 to $100m in 1985. Nintendo is credited with reviving the industry with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
nXJ9 TIL Indian Removal in America was a larger genocide than the Holocaust