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TIL mussels, which you eat, start out life as parasites

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BgGxr TIL a study on professional slap fighting analyzed 333 slaps for visible signs of concussion & found that more than 50% of the slap sequences resulted in fighters showing visible signs of concussion, with nearly 80% of the fighters demonstrating at least 1 sign of concussion during their matches.
b6JEj TIL that Gavrilo Princip, the assassin that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand which triggered WW1, didn't get a death sentence nor a life sentence, but only 20 years. But he died in prison 3 years into his sentence anyways.
Zpmgv TIL about the “Dunny man” who would come late at night to empty the toilets in Australian out-houses. He’d hoist the filled drum up on his shoulder, carry it away and replace it with a new one.
bQVZ TIL only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat.
GYW0N TIL the median annual salary for church Pastors in the US is about $94,000