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TIL Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

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wx5E TIL that during the Napoleonic wars, a french ship wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool. The only survivor being a Monkey in a french uniform. Since the locals had never seen a Monkey nor a Frenchman before, they concluded the monkey was a french spy and hanged the monkey.
XEyx6 TIL: Dora the Explorer is hugely popular in India and used to teach local languages instead of Spanish.
yQ0Jl TIL after the Kent State shootings students often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.
N71WE TIL Documentary Filmmaker Brian Fogle accidentally discovered the Russian State Sponsored Doping program while making a movie about how to beat doping tests. The movie is credited with helping start the investigation that ended up blocking Russia from competing at the Olympics since 2017
Vko4 TIL South Africa’s President testified that he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman because this would reduce his risk of being infected