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TIL frogs with extra legs are often the result of a parasite

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XErDX TIL of Harold Brown, who in 1978, plummeted 29 floors inside the San Francisco Transamerica building, shouting ""whoopee" all the way down. He survived the fall and was heard singing Camptown Races in the ambulance.
vpax TIL a Peruvian football club tried to avoid relegation by moving their stadium to one of the highest cities in the world, so their opponents would suffer from altitude sickness. Oh, and their nickname was “Los Wankeros”.
ven8 TIL that a Minnesota action park lets you drive surplus military tanks and other armored vehicles around an old limestone quarry and smash junk cars and drive through trailer houses.
L4P TIL that incidents of domestic violence with families of police officers are 2-4 times more common than in rest of the population.
p8kw8 TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote "William Wilson", a story where doppelgangers share a name and similar traits. In the 1980s, there were 2 switch hitter, center fielders, that shared similar traits and backgrounds, playing in the MLB. Their names were William Wilson.