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TIL there is a test for anal grip strength

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KmwQ TIL a 12-year-old Ethiopian girl was snatched by four men on her way home from school. A week later, three lions encountered the group and chased the men off. The lions stayed with the girl without harming her, before departing as police searching for her came near
5YwoB TIL Greg Ham, the flautist and founding member of the band Men at Work, died of an overdose following a bout of depression sustained from losing a plagiarism lawsuit from copyright trolls. His crime: using part of the children's nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" on his solo in the song "Down Under"
woVa6 TIL of the McCarthy Massacre, when Louis Hastings intended to cut off the isolated village of McCarthy, Alaska, kill all the residents, dump the bodies on a glacier and destroy a part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He killed six of the 22 residents before being being arrested.
xVlpB TIL Opossums are actually really helpful to humans.
5Vndp TiL the little red-haired girl, Charlie Brown's crush, was based off a woman that Charles Schulz courted who ultimately married a different suitor. Schulz described it as an "emotionally damaging" event. "What a bitter blow that is. A blow to everything that you are."