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TIL there’s a school in Russia for mastering “The Art of oral sex”

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yVA58 TIL that tuberculosis was first brought to the Americas by seals that contracted it on beaches of Africa and carried it across the Atlantic around 1,000 years ago. In South America, it was likely contracted first by hunters who handled contaminated meat.
lWWr TIL that NASA wanted to send Caroll Spinney, the actor who plays Big Bird to space via the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986 to interest children in space. However, the Big Bird suit was too big for the shuttle, so he was replaced by teacher Christa McAuliffe.
Z80vp TIL that an Australian bird, called the rainbow lorikeet, routinely gets drunk from spring to summer. The small birds drink the fermented crimson flower nectar from the Weeping Boer-bean tree. When intoxicated these birds make loud drunken noises which many people find bothersome.
4kMg5 Til - the Bagger 288 has a larger 'sibling', the Bagger 293 is 5m longer and 700 tons heavier.
x8J0 TIL Warren Buffett has only sent one e-mail in his entire life… to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft and it ended up in a court in Minneapolis so he’s over it.