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TIL The thirteenth-century friar, Albert's Magnus, publicized eating roasted wolf penis as the ultimate cure for Erectile Dysfunction.

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lgAK TIL a French man fell in love with someone he thought was a female Chinese opera singer, and had a decades-long affair that resulted in a child… only to discover that the whole time the singer had actually been (a) male and (b) a spy.
0dRDR TIL of a 2009 Duke University study which showed that hyenas outperformed primates in cooperative problem solving tests with some subjects teaching inexperienced partners how to perform some tricks.
l7GmB TIL “Jingle Bells” was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song.
GYV74 TIL after arriving in Italy for the Fourth Crusade, the crusader army could not fund their expedition. They spent the remainder of the crusade sacking an Italian city, getting excommunicated, and pillaging the Christian city of Constantinople. Very few went to the Holy Land.
BQLK TIL Key and Peele were the gangsters in Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy”