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TIL Dinka tribesmen of Sudan sometimes rupture their stomachs by overeating in preparation for ‘fat-man’ contests. Deaths this way are considered an honorble way to die.

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YpBRd TIL Fred Astaire’s last on-screen dance was as an alien prince on Battlestar Galactica at the age of 80 because his grandchildren watched it
GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.
a8Lmo TIL about Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons that has a 12m (20km) high ridge of mountains running almost perfectly along the entire equator, dividing the moon into a bright side and a dark side
NXP7M TIL in 2014, McDonald's revealed that Grimace, their purple monster mascot, is "the embodiment of a milkshake or a taste bud."
R557w TIL almost all bananas we eat today are clones of each other