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TIL that Mao Tse Tung didn’t brush his teeth and infected near 3.000 women by sexual relations, because he had trichomoniasis and genital herpes

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JYD8V TIL of Brian Wells, the pizza delivery driver who alleged to have been taken hostage with a bomb around his neck and instructed to rob a bank
EBnx TIL that the English word oil comes from the ancient Greek word elaia, which means olive. So olive oil basically means olive olive.
XE8Yj TIL: The landscape design where a grassy incline slopes downward to a retaining wall to contain livestock or as barrier that doesn't spoil the view, is called a Ha-Ha.
8aae8 TIL Hisashi Ouchi a technician working at Japanese Nuclear Fuel Conversion was exposed to beyond fatal amounts of radiation, in a way that none of his chromosomes could be identified after the accident. Still, doctors managed to keep him alive for 83 days against his wishes.
6KGm TIL wasabi is typically a mix of European horseradish, mustard, and food coloring as authentic wasabi loses flavor in 15 minutes