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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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grZxL TIL Great white sharks rarely survive in captivity. Experts suspect the electricity in buildings interferes with the animals' electrosensory systems—though that hasn't stopped some aquariums from trying, and failing, to display them.
WkPN8 TIL the first sports bra was made in 1977 by sewing two jock straps together. Its literal test run was performed by of its two inventors: one jogging forwards wearing the Macgyvered prototype while her friend ran ahead, jogging backwards so she could assess her friend's "bounciness"
KJO9 TIL that there is another kind of lightning inside thunderstorms, called as “dark lightning” It expels antimatter and radioactive gamma rays.
Y7WPW TIL on the morning of February 10, 1970, a powder snow avalanche travelling at 120 mph crashed into Val d'Isère, an Alpine ski resort. This French resort was run by a non-profit youth organisation and mostly drew younger skiers. 39 adolescent skiers and three trail personnel were killed that day.
XEDbD TIL according to the FDA, most store-bought honey is adulterated with cheaper ingredients that are not honey.