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TIL: An 80s pop song has been online since 2002 (YouTube since 2007) that no one has been able to identify despite extensive research.

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Z8QOv TIL that in a zoo, tigers and lions are fed ice cubes made by freezing the blood known as "bloodsicles." This is done to provide cooling to them in a hot weather.
9Y5AM TIL The Paraguayan Fortress of Humaitá was known as the Gibraltar of South America. The security of the fortress likely caused overconfidence in President Francisco Solano López, who launched the Paraguayan War, which he lost, 150,000 Paraguayans died, and Humaitá was razed by the Triple Alliance.
M7yLV TIL Humans domesticated Cannabis 12,000 years ago. More than 3,000 years before we domesticated Maize (Corn)
kOYB TIL a woman with no vagina became pregnant after being stabbed in her stomach. x2 TIL there is a condition where women don’t have vaginas!
1rKV TIL in 1838, France and Mexico fought the Pastry War over Mexico’s refusal to pay 600,000 pesos to a French pastry chef whose shop had been ransacked by Mexican officers.