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TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.

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QoA9 TIL that Senator Daniel Webster turned down two offers to be vice president by William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor because he thought the office was a dead-end position. Both these presidents then died in office.
xPl1 TIL: Scotsman weighing 207 kilograms (456 pounds), fasted for ONE YEAR and 17 days. He ate no food at all for over a year. He lived entirely off his copious body fat, in the end losing about 125 kilograms (275 pounds) of weight.
4XvlJ TIL Giant squids have a donut shaped brain so their esophagus can run through the middle. If they try to swallow too large of a bite of food they can receive serious brain damage.
Ror4 TIL that the song “Mambo No. 5” was initially chosen for 2000’s Democratic National Convention, but this idea was scrapped due to the line “A little bit of Monica in my life.”
l7dK TIL That, to prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not stress, a scientist drank a beaker of the bacterium. He both developed stomach ulcers and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.