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TIL Tinder has made a match in Antarctica.

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D8Vp TIL in Japan, if someone is photographed or filmed while handcuffed, their hands have to be pixelated when used on TV or in the newspapers due to the implied guilt being pictured in handcuffs.
OoMv4 TIL that Poo-phoria occurs when your bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve, which descends from the brain stem to the colon. It takes a particularly "large mass of stool" to trigger poo-phoria and its vagal-nerve-induced feelings of exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps.
KDO4 TIL that one of Hitlers highest ranking officers was half-jewish but Hitler declared him Aryan to get around it
AweB TIL the word Bastard originated to describe a man who was successful regardless of heritage
LQlOr TIL that Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi starred in an episode of X-Files together in 1995.