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TIL: The Florida Man Games are a thing.

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1a9D8 TIL that the vas deferens can regenerate (grow back) even if as much as five centimeters (two inches) of it have been surgically removed.
4X1Xw TIL of Project Pigeon, in which American behaviorist B.F. Skinner attempted to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb during World War II.
nemE9 TIL In the 1960's McDonald's was prepared to abandon its logo of the golden arches of the letter M, but psychologist Louis Cheskin successfully urged the company to maintain this branding because of their "Freudian symbolism of a pair of nourishing breasts."
X0OPE TIL about the Kyujo Incident that occurred on Aug 14, 1945 where several Japanese officers occupied the Japanese Imperial Palace in an attempted coup of the Emperor to prevent him from surrendering to the Allies. They murdered several people and when their plot failed, they committed suicide.
yQyAp TIL The religiously unaffiliated now make up almost a quarter of the US population.