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TIL "call of the void" is that feeling when you think for a second about steering into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff for no reason although you would never do it.

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mJEp TIL the Kool-Aid Man has gone back to not wearing pants
j6X7v TIL that during Al-Qaeda volleyball matches, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden had to be on separate teams due to their skill and stature to ensure fair play.
OGLZ7 TIL Greenday's American Idiot was released 20 years ago August 6th
97Nr TIL in 1978, then-NBA center Clifford Ray saved a dolphin’s life by using his 45 inch reach to grab a screw the dolphin had swallowed. He received instruction over the phone from a veterinarian, who told him how to reach up and into the dolphin’s second stomach to extract the screw.
LArd TIL that an estimated 2 million German women were raped during the later part of WWII. The majority of the rapes took place in the Soviet occupation zone. This is considered by some to be the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”.