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TIL that a Japanese professional baseball team has been “cursed” ever since a Colonel Sanders statue was thrown into a river.

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pYBJZ TIL that spent fuel from nuclear reactors is used to make household fire alarms
691PY TIL about Hanns Scharff, a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War who is considered the "father of modern interrogation techniques". After the war he became a famous mosaic artisan who amongt other things created the 15-foot arched cinderella mosaic walls in Disneyland
78eP7 TIL sucking on your SO's (F) nipples can cause irregularities in periods and is also a method of (extremely unreliable) contraception. Sucking on the nipple releases the hormone prolactin, which causes the brain/body to think there is already an suckling infant and will try to delay the next.
d88E8 TIL there is a woman who takes photographs of roadkill to make are.
VBlLD TIL that Cyrus the Great was so beloved, he was the only non-Jewish person in the Jewish Bible (Old Testament) to be identified as the messiah