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TIL 61% of men and 48% of women partake in sexting and suggestive photo taking with their cellphones.

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5V7X9 TIL in Canada (Yukon Territory) you can buy a drink called the Sour Toe Cocktail, which contains an actual alcohol-preserved human toe, for $5.
KkbG TIL a man was convicted and hanged in 1673 using the testimony of ghosts that appeared in dreams to witnesses.
XEvZj TIL prosecutors considered, but ended up not, calling a husband's parrot as a key witness in a wife-husband murder case after the bird kept repeating "don't shoot" in the victim's voice; wife found guilty anyway.
D1PgP TIL that in 1875 a swarm of 12.5 trillion locusts covering 198,000 square miles and weighing 27.5 million tons descended upon the Great Plains, devouring all plant life in their path. Farmers that tied to shoo them away had the clothes eaten right off their bodies.
GYXoj TIL Hercules/Heracles means "the glory of Hera," Alcides is the hero's real name. He was renamed to mollify Hera when she discovered Zeus had him with another woman.