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TIL that it's against the rules to play polo left-handed, since it leads to a serious injury risk.

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PXlJ TIL a Baku is a creature from Chinese folklore that can be summoned to devour nightmares. However if he remains hungry after eating one’s nightmares, he may also devour their hopes and desires.
QJgoa TIL in 2011, a 75 year old Georgian woman accidentally cut off internet access to almost all of Armenia while scavenging for copper to sell as scrap
XEx08 TIL A 2013 study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine revealed that 69% of doctors reported that they abused prescription medicine “to relieve stress & physical or emotional pain." Rates of addiction are highest within the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.
gg6W TIL that there are fossilized forests with more than 300 ft tall (100 meters) trees in argentina that have been buried in ash for 150 million years
gMVJ9 TIL Genital Herpes (HSV2) dates back millions of years. Scientists found that early ancestors (Homo Erectus) most likely contracted it from another early hominin (Parathropus Boisei). Probably likely through scavenging ancestral chimp meat.