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TIL about jeep ducking

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kOodd TIL There are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army. To this day, you can still see the bloody outlines and footprints.
ANwZo TIL, talk-show host Montel Williams, Jr. served 22 years in the Navy, worked as a cryptologist and retired as Lt. Commander.
VB400 TIL that F1 drivers lose approximately 2 to 3 kilograms of their weight during a race due to sweating
ooVW TIL the first artificial insemination took place in 1884 when a med professor injected his unconscious patient with the semen of “his most handsome student”, unbeknownst to both the woman and her infertile husband.
XERvX TIL the expression “How do you like them apples” supposedly originated during the first World War, when the Allies’ anti-tank grenade was colloquially called a “toffee apple” because of its bulb-like appearance on a stick. The phrase was a taunt against the enemy.