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TIL all corgis suffer from achondroplastic dwarfism

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X8W8 TIL your rectum and anus—is lined by cells similar to those in your mouth, which is why spicy foods can burn just as much on the way out as on the way in
wW97 TIL Madagascar allows travelers from basically every single other country on Earth to enter with a Visa on arrival
pYQm8 TIL that in 1828, a surgeon who had previously been in Andrew Jackson's militia during the War of 1812 started keeping track of every "violent and abusive quarrel" Jackson had caused or partaken in. The final list accumulated to nearly 100.
NXXQN TIL testicles make several million sperm per day — about 1,500 per second.
OG6J6 TIL Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player and often played correspondence chess with soldiers overseas during World War II. In 1943, the FBI told him to stop doing so after they intercepted his mail believing the chess notations to be secret codes.