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TIL the Netherlands has a Quick-Response Team of firefighters, outfitted with military-style tactical gear

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Eg9o7 TIL of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, a continuously running calendar used on monuments, and that started on creation day, August 11, 3114 BCE.
YXXv TIL that a man went through simulated labor to put an end to the age old debate about pain thresholds…and called mercy after three hours.
JYaRl TIL the largest tumor successfully removed from a human patient was a multicystic mass of the right ovary weighing 303 lbs (137.6 kg). The 6-hour operation took place in 1991 at Stanford University Hospital where the patient lay on her side, so as not to be crushed by the 3-ft diameter growth.
neQ0o Today I learned that when you eat pineapple and your tongue begins to hurt it is due to the fact that the pineapple is eating you back thanks to bromelain.
WK0L TIL Will Farrell worked as a mall Santa. That means someone has a childhood Christmas photo with Will Farrell Santa.