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TIL of 'male menstruation' that was considered a normal part of growing up in twentieth century Egyptian culture but was actually due to an endemic parasitic bladder infection from schistosomes causing bloody urine.

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RB64 TIL Bob Dole’s website from his 1996 presidential campaign is still online
Ygdd TIL that a customer closed his account in a bank with more than a million dollars in it after they refused to validate his 50c parking
rKGx TIL A man ate nothing but potatoes for 60 days and thrived.
wW4W TIL Pepsi became a military power in 1989 after Russia could not pay them in rubles. Russia paid with diesel submarines and a few ships instead.
gr1r7 TIL that the ratio of the perimeter of the Great Pyramid of Giza to its height is equal to 2*pi to an accuracy of better than 1 part in 3000