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TIL of Dina Sinachar, a six year old boy found by hunters who was raised by wolves. He walked on all fours, ate raw meat, howled, and was the inspiration for the jungle book.

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oE7E TIL, the Beastie Boys began as a hardcore punk band as a joke and mimicked their name after the Angry Samoans. They opened up for the Bad Brains and the Circle Jerks before shifting into a hip-hop sound
QJjeE TIL Gonads are an actual medical term
GjXN TIL In 1983 there was a Japanese made Atari game called Lover Boy. You play a naked man chasing women around a Pac-man style maze, avoiding the police. If you catch the women you must bring her to orgasm before she can escape. The game was later banned
168Br TIL that the average density of the Earth is almost four times greater than the average density of the Sun
e0mNk TIL that the Iceman was the 19th century equivalent of the milkman or mailman having affairs with lonely housewives. There was even a hit Vaudeville song “How’d You Like to Be the Iceman?” and a peep show with a housewife kissing an ice delivery man.