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TIL There is a mountain in Wyoming where you could pee and some of it would end up in the Mississippi River, the Columbia River and the Colorado River.

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9YXgm TIL the Cajun Navy is a group of private boat-owning volunteers who help with rescues during hurricanes and flooding in Louisiana and nearby areas.
8aZJZ TIL pole dancing is a 1000 year old sport in India called Mallakhamba
Bg6ZL TIL during the Cultural Revolution in China a system of schools for government officials called May Seventh Cadre Schools were established to combat bureaucratism. Officials were required to perform hard manual labor and learn communist doctrine for six months to two years before returning to work.
Wke0d TIL that Dolph Lundgren in addition to being a 3rd Dan Black Belt and '80/'81 European Karate champion, earning a Masters in Chemical Engineering, a scholarship to MIT, and becoming a movie star, is an abuse survivor. There can never be to many "strong" men like him and Terry Crews in this world.
wZEJ TIL it’s possible to replace a lost thumb with a toe, and that the first successful toe-to-thumb transplant was performed in 1964, on a rhesus monkey (first human was 1972)