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TIL too much peppermint can give you an itchy anus

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MeR0W TIL of Brian Banks, a star football player with a promising NFL career, who was sent to prison at 17 after being accused of sexual violence. After serving 5 years in prison, the woman confessed she made it up. Although he was acquitted, his dream NFL career never happened and she never served time.
WkrAo TIL that the world record for spitting a cherry pit is 28.5 m or 93.5 feet.
xDG7 TIL that the little dangling pieces of skin on the underside of your tongue serve no purpose whatsoever.
0dbyj today i learned that Incas, the last carolina parakeet who died in 1918, died in the same cage in the Cincinnati zoo as Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died 4 years prior
QvX6 TIL in 1968 big wave surfer Eddie Aikau was selected to be the first lifeguard at Waimea beach in Oahu. Not a single person died during his time as a lifeguard and he rescued over 500 people.