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TIL collecting toad sperm is easy; many release it in urine. Scoop 'em up and they urinate/ejaculate in fear. But what if they don't? According to Diane Barber of Fort Worth Zoo: "It's kind of weird, but if you hold them in your hand and look at them and bark at them like a dog, then they will pee".

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LkGXV TIL that drinking a mix of orange lemonade and cola is a very German(-speaking) thing, and although such drinks are marketed by Coca Cola and Pepsico, they are only sold in Central Europe.
0Y5p TIL Richard Marsh is a rare survivor of locked-in syndrome, a condition where a patient can only move his or her eye muscles. During his coma, Richard watched his wife beg doctors not to take him off of life support, and witnessed his own rough handling by the nighttime staff.
PYjLV TIL: About the Nazi's Lebensborn program which served to raised racially pure Aryan babies. They also kidnapped "perfect" babies from foreign nations and even dyed the hair of some of them. A famous Lebensborn baby eventually became a member of ABBA.
XPL6 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
We9o TIL euphoria can be a symptom of syphilis due to its effects on the nervous system.