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TIL Viagra has an unintended side effect of helping the spleen filter out malaria

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GYrWE TIL there is a species of freshwater seal that lives in a lake in northern Canada, the only seal population to do so
M7gl8 TIL of Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands which served as a nuclear test site for the US in WWII, and after which the bikini swimsuit and Spongebob's Bikini Bottom are named.
GAPBg TIL that in the 1970s Theo Albrecht (one of the founders of Aldi) was kidnapped, haggled the ransom down to 7 million marks and (unsucessfully) tried to claim the ransom as a tax deductible business expense
OoDKX TIL that the people on house hunters already bought a house before the show and the rest is staged
d8bWZ TIL that Red Cloud, a Chief of the Lakota, was the only American Indian in the West to win a war against the US, inflicted the largest military defeat suffered by the US on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and was the most photographed American Indian in the 19th century.