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TIL corn flakes were invented to cure masturbation.

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PPxL TIL that there exists a university in Canada (University of Victoria) offering a course in physical education titled as ‘The Science of Batman’.
N7ZG6 TIL about Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour that has been going on continuously for the last 31 years, and throughout the 90's and 00's played roughly 100 dates a year - on April 19th 2018 he played his 3000th show.
ZDRB TIL A South African man woke up in a morgue freezer almost one day after being declared dead
epv0b TIL During double-amputee athelete Oscar Pistorius's trial in South Africa for the shooting of his girlfriend, he was found not guilty of murder but guilty of culpable homicide (like manslaughter). However, the prosecution was able to appeal his murder acquittal into a guilty verdict of murder.
XBJP TIL that during the Three Mile Island incident, the government considered sending in terminally ill cancer patients to release a manual valve in the reactor