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TIL 14% of women send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day

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xV6M5 TIL That there's a specific brand of mud that's been rubbed on every baseball ever pitched in the MLB since the 1950s
oBabo TIL Tsar Peter the Great had a fondness for anatomy and often attended medical dissections. So after having his mistress Mary Hamilton beheaded, he picked up the head, gave a lecture about its anatomy, kissed its lips, then dropped it to the ground. Peter also had his own son tortured to death.
R5Nn1 TIL in 2014, McDonald's revealed that Grimace, their purple monster mascot, is "the embodiment of a milkshake or a taste bud."
pY4DZ TIL Max Weinberg of the E Street Band has a son and he's the drummer for Slipknot
AW5B TIL paleontological research shows that the part of the human brain that controls hearing and our sense of smell shrank around the same time as we began to domesticate dogs.