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Today I learned that it is illegal to sell rulers with only inches on them in Japan

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gMWEy TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan magazine ran an article stating that women had no chance of contracting HIV from sex with a man because HIV could not be transmitted in the missionary position
GALN1 TIL that during the falklands war in 1982 the british mistakenly killed three whales believing them to be enemy submarines.
R57L8 TIL that during a two-year recovery from tuberculosis at a sanitorium, Ringo Starr was first exposed to a percussion instrument in the form of a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his hospital bed.
AWJo TIL Hercules once tricked Atlas into holding the sky using the old “hold this while I tie my shoes” routine
0deXM TIL about the “Bionic Chef”, Eduardo Garcia, who was electrocuted by a 2,400V electrified baby black bear while alone in the Montana wilderness, costing him his hand due to the resulting burns and infection