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Wkw4X TIL that male Billy Goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season
neog7 TIL that Nazi Germany claimed an Antarctic Colony named New Swabia
yVYBX TIL that James Bedford is the first person to have his body cryopreserved in 1967 and it is still in storage.