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TIL people who had their rectum removed , still feel like they have to poop , even though nothing is there

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ZBXa TIL that Merlin the Wizard was possibly based on the legend of a real person, Myrddin Wyllt, a bard who went crazy watching the defeat and slaughter of his Celtic King Gwenddoleu and his army, and spent the rest of his life in the forest living among animals as a madman.
GYKb5 TIL The University of Wisconsin - Madison operates over half of the weather stations in Antarctica
BrZnK TIL Upper Peninsula of Michigan(UP) is the only region in the US where Finnish Americans make up a plurality of the population. Even the local English dialect is influenced by Finnish.
D1aoe TIL that New Zealander Nigel Richards memorised the French dictionary and won a French Scrabble competition. He does not speak French at all.
j61wR TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth's atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture's stories/myths