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TIL the scientific name of Llamas is ‘Lama Glama’

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ANkro TIL There’s a chance you might get blown to smithereens if you donate your body to science… Jim Stauffer said the paperwork asked specifically if medical tests involving explosions were OK. “We checked the ‘no’ box on all that,”
yokl TIL gloves were introduced into boxing not for safety reasons but to increase hits to the head and dramatic knockouts.
WkvL8 TIL that in many cultures, people would greet each other by grasping each others' hands' - with full skin-to-skin contact - and vigorously shaking them up and down.
w1EJ TIL Stephen Hawking can have a normal more “modernized” voice however he chooses to keep the robotic voice as it is the voice he has come to identify with
1aBQ7 TIL two surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze started the 4ocean movement and now has 27 operations around the world and has collected 4 million pounds of trash since 2017.