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TIL the reason Fear Factor was cancelled was because they had a challenge where the contestants drank donkey semen. It wasn’t even the final test to win the grand prize.

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L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”
vP16D TIL that the given (first) name of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (the Japanese Admiral who devised the attack on Pearl Harbor and much of Japan's success in the first part WWII) means the number "56" - his father's age when Isoroku was born.
Z8Jxv TIL The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands were originally the same mountain range.
v1RlK TIL that while apes may not be able to ask questions, one parrot did. An African grey parrot once asked his handler what colour he was.
xVVK7 TIL A grandmother came second in a cake baking competition despite being the only entrant