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TIL There is a small Indian tribe called the Anal People that engage in animal sacrifice and have a passion for...uh...let's call it "caves"

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X0B8k TIL that the biggest margin of defeat in a football (soccer) game was 149 - 0 between AS Adema and SO l'Emyrne. SO l'Emyrne intentionally lost the game to protest against refereeing decisions that went against them previously.
dr0E TIL the world’s most expensive keyboard in 2007 cost over $4,400 US and was hand lacquered using a brush made from the hairs of virgins then coated in gold dust.
a7Ab TIL that in 2006 race driver Alex Roy drove NYC to LA in 31 hours and 4 minute. He planned the route to avoid traffic lights and and had friends in spotter planes watching for radar and speed traps.
awrrN TIL that the man responsible for inventing leaded gasoline, Thomas Midgley Jr, was also accredited for the introduction of the ozone depleting refrigerant Freon. Later in life, Midgley contracted Polio and subsequently died when he was strangled by the very device he designed to get him out of bed.
5J0p TIL António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients.