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TIL That Research has Shown that Spoilers Increase your Enjoyment

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eg95 TIL that in the 1920’s a French surgeon became famous for his practise of grafting monkey testicles on to male testicles. Hundreds, including the rich and famous, underwent the procedure for its supposed rejuvenating effects.
kJWP1 TIL that certain frogs, like the wood frog, can survive being frozen solid in the winter and then come back to life when they thaw in the spring.
N7rrb TIL Bobbie the Wonder Dog covered 2,551 miles on his own to return home to Oregon after he was lost. He returned mangy, dirty, and scrawny, with his nails worn down to nothing and seemingly walked the entire distance, swam rivers, and crossed the Continental Divide during the coldest part of winter.
oRpyY Today I learned that Charles Foussard spent 70 years and 303 days in custody in Ararat, Victoria (Australia) between 1903 and 1974 for killing an old man and stealing his boots, making him the prisoner with the longest effective incarceration. He died while still incarcerated.
VB8Z TIL Pepsi sparked riots in the Philippines after it sponsored a million-peso contest and announced the wrong winning number, which resulted in 80,000 people thinking they’d won the jackpot. The backlash was so widespread that it united members of warring factions against Pepsi.