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TIL an American exchange student in Germany had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a vagina sculpture.

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9wVrB TIL that higher doses of highly radioactive iodine-131 are safer than moderate doses, since at high doses the element kills human cells outright, while at lower doses it causes mutations instead, thus causing thyroid cancer
wLVQM On Sunday, snow fell in one of the most unlikely places on Earth. Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, got a couple inches of the white stuff.
Odge TIL of Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
xVN1g TIL David Bowie had little memory of recording his 10th studio album Station to Station as he had a cocaine habit and subsisted on only peppers and milk, spending much of 1975-1976 “in a state of psychic terror”
l7nWG TIL in 2003, 12yo Auri Allen was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not due to his massive size, nicknamed Baby Shaq. By 2006, he was regarded as one of the top 5 basketball players in the country, until a car crash paralyzed him. He later became a Head Coach and founded his own basketball academy.