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TIL Ostriches have terrible ground fighting skills. If you can manage to get behind one, cinch your arm around its neck tightly and use your momentum to fall to one side. While on the ground and keeping hold of the neck, make sure to chop the throat repeatedly until the bird loses consciousness.

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kjwg TIL that Iran is the only country in the world that allows citizens to trade kidneys for money via a regulated marketplace. There is no waiting list for transplant patients. Citizens are even exempted from military service if they donate as the gvt. contends they have already served their country.
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