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TIL Bells on collars seem to reduce the amount of prey caught by 50%+.

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GALM5 TIL in 2007, Hamburg Mannheimer International (HMI), now part of Munich Re, held a party in Budapest with 20 prostitutes to reward 100 of its best salesmen
Mep0 TIL Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic gold medal into an Ohio river to protest racial discrimination in America
kMR1 TIL Smile Mask Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. First described in Japan in 1983, this is attributed to the great importance placed on smiling in the Japanese service industry.
yZEe TIL - A fan of ‘Big Brother Australia’ host Bree Amer spent a year and over $500 stalking her by letter and phone, urging her to get tested for cancer. When a friend insisted she follow his advice, she was found to have thyroid cancer.
wP8P TIL there’s a city in Georgia with a golf cart path infrastructure over the whole town, where the large majority of the population own golf carts and the kids grow up driving them instead of cars.