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TIL elephants evolved to keep their testicles inside their body because predators kept biting them off.

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5B98 TIL that it took Pearl Jam around 70 times to record the song ‘Even Flow’, With guitarist Mike McCready stating, “I swear to God it was a nightmare. We played that thing over and over until we hated each other.”
RL64 TIL broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and kale are all different breeds of the same plant.
0www1 TIL when the first escalator in London was installed at Harrods in November 1898, customers were offered brandy at the top of the escalator “to revive them after their ordeal.”
ALOn TIL The Department of Justice and ICE are responsible for hacking into and planting child pornography on the computers of known pirates in order to arrest them and ruin their lives.
JYB4l TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and faced a five-year prison term, at the height of the Vietnam War for refusing to fight. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong, they never called me n****r."