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TIL that Steve Irwin Nammed His Daughter After His 2 favorite pets.

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ADKEl TIL if you run out of bandages, know that you could—but probably wouldn't want to—reach for the cobwebs in your basement as an alternative. Cobwebs actually have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians to make bandages.
Wy8d TIL that on Europe’s longest road of ice you’re actually banned from wearing a seatbelt incase you need to make a speedy exit from your vehicle.
VgE8 TIL that not only can Brazilian prisoners take time off their sentences by writing book reports, but also by riding exercise bicycles that helps power the local plaza. (16 hours of biking = 1 day removed from sentence)
yVNb8 TIL former UK Prime Minister John Major's dad was a vaudeville performer and garden gnome salesman, among a few other things
LknZ9 TIL that the "All persons fictitious" disclaimer that appears in the end credits of films and TV shows is a result of a libel case brought against MGM that had produced a film suggesting that a Russian princess had been seduced by Rasputin