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TIL A New Ligament in the Human Knee was Discovered in 2013

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jN7lM TIL that eggs boiled in young boys urine is a traditional dish in a certain part of China.
W7obo TIL a scientist hired his family to refine radium in their basement for 20 years, with the waste buried in the backyard. The property was declared a Superfund site and cost $70M to clean up. His body was exhumed for testing and had the largest amount of radioactive material ever detected in a human.
4xa6 TIL that during the 1988 purges in Iran, women were lashed for missing their daily prayers. When one woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.
KOegR TIL That while very drunk, the band Old Dominion had the idea to release their newest album again but remixed it with the only word being "meow" on each track. It's called the Meow Mix and after waking up the next day, they followed through with it.
x6180 TIL that Bumblebees are capable of flying at altitudes higher than Mount Everest!