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TIL that Mike Tyson’s great passion in life is raising pigeons. He actually got in his first fight protecting one.

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W8e4 TIL that people in Jamaica (with a more than 90% black population) are bleaching their skin to look more “attractive” to the other sex.
eDX5 TIL that Brave Heart is one of the most historically inaccurate films ever made. “It’s like watching a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front instead of the right way around.”
OWW6 TIL The Greek god of fertility, had a never ending boner and his sacrificial animal was the ass. His name gave rise to the medical term priapism – a prolonged erection
BMjW TIL that astronauts in the ISS “do their laundry” by having new clothes shipped to them in an unmanned spacecraft that then has the old clothes put into it and is burnt up upon reentry.
a8rDN TIL of Dr Girard-Mangin, the first female doctor serving during WWI.