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TIL the highest ultraviolet index recorded was 43.3 detected at Bolivia's Licancabur volcano

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5YL0r TIL there is a Pakistan Blind Cricket Council that forms blind cricket teams and organizes games.
66BY TIL the Japanese method of how to iron a shirt in less than 3 minutes, and that Japanese men compete in a huge competition each year to attempt to earn the title of “fastest-shirt-ironer.”
lo9MA TIL about the inhalant drug ‘Lança Perfume’, or ‘Loló’, sold largely in Brazil. Chloroform and/or Ether are main ingredients used in the drug, taken via small bottles or flasks. Popular with upper class students in the mid-late 20th Century, rock singer Rita Lee had a hit 1980 song named after it.
b9Nd0 TIL hay and straw are two totally different things. Hay is made up of legumes and used to feed livestock. Straw is a waste product of wheat and good bedding for animals.
YKEA TIL: Two women bet a Russian man that he couldn’t have sex with both of them for 12 hours straight. He won the bet and then died from a heart attack immediately after.