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TIL Valentines Day started life as a fertility festival where two men wearing animal skin would run around slapping passers by with lengths of goat skin.

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vb4r TIL: Zyklon B is still sold to this day as a pesticide, though under a different trade name.
58mB TIL troop of 15 monkeys escaped a primate research center in Japan by using trees as catapults over a five-metre high electric fence (and afterwards were lured back with peanuts).
Mpy8 TIL the author of “Goodnight Moon” left all of the book’s royalties to her 9-year old neighbor, Albert Clarke, in 1952. Since then, Clarke has been arrested dozens of times, had 2 kids with a homeless woman he met on 6th Avenue in NYC, and has squandered most of the millions he has received.
PYeog TIL if you get a zebrafish drunk, it convinces the other sober fish to follow it around.
X0ZXR TIL a California woman won $1.3 million in the lottery and filed for divorce 11 days later without disclosing her winnings to her husband. Two years later, he discovered the truth and sued, winning the entire amount.