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TIL the CIA uses rectal feeding as a torture tactic, which can result in anal fissures, chronic hemorrhoids and symptomatic rectal prolapse

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R7Kx7 TIL about mate choice copying, a phenomenon in many animal species including humans where a potential mate is seen as more desirable if they've already been selected by another mate. It is more likely to occur when the current mate is seen as attractive and is also more prominent in women than men.
yVANV TIL that in 18th century Russia there was a black African man called Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Freed from slavery and adopted by Peter the Great as his godson, he reached the status of nobility - with one of his great-grandsons being Alexander Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian writers in history.
lvAA TIL that the rights to 7Up are owned by Pepsi in every country EXCEPT the US, where they are owned by Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
0w7rN TIL that in 2014, Afroman made a remix of his 2001 song 'Because I Got High' where he changed the lyrics to reflect the positive aspects of getting high
ZpM8p TIL of Douglas Adams's posthumous role as Agrajag in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series. Adams never recorded the lines for Agrajag and was dead by the time the BBC revived the series. Agrajag's lines are actually clips from Adams's reading of his books, recorded many years before.