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TIL orcas are a part of the dolphin family

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j6Qwp TIL about the Akodessawa Fetish Market in Lome, Togo, the world's largest voodoo market ("Fetish" refers to an object believed to possess spiritual or supernatural powers). Fetishes for sale include monkey heads, dead birds, and other dead animal products.
kJ99g TIL about the “Bonus Army,” WWI veterans who in 1932 marched to D.C. demanding their promised wartime bonuses. Under Hoover’s orders, U.S. troops led by Gen. MacArthur used tear gas, bayonets, and tanks to crush them, killing 2 and injuring many.
9bYM TIL that while attending the University of Tennessee, Peyton Manning, pulled down his shorts and sat on a female trainer’s face during an examination. He proceeded to rub his rectum and testicles on the woman’s face until she was able to free herself from him.
ADPAa TIL the "Einstein refrigerator" is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd, who patented it in the US on 11/11/1930.
r9k4 TIL there is an active ‘secret-seekers’ group still trying to uncover the final mystery of the 2005 videogame Shadows of the Colossus