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TIL that there are hot dog vendors who have been working at Fenway park for up to 40 years...making it a career

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E1pep TIL that a torturer in Communist Poland, Julia Brystiger, was famous for "whipping male genitals" of her victims, some of whom later died because of this.
woxLJ TIL that penis enlargement methods go back thousands of years. Ancient Greeks and Indians wrote about various dubious methods. The Topinamá tribe in Brazil in the 1500s let poisonous snakes bite their penises. Penis pumps are not a modern invention, either.
wOR8 TIL that in 2017, the US will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979, and that people from several countries are already trying to make hotel reservations―years in advance!
MpYA TIL that phrases such as “studies show” or “experts say” are called weasel words
Br6Re TIL that over 150 wallabies are living wild in a forest in France, they escaped a zoo in the 70's and are adapting quite well