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TIL five men agreed to stand directly under an exploding nuclear bomb.. All of them walked away unscathed.

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Bg18r TIL in 2011, a 16 year old teenager repelled down into a San Francisco dealership and stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini
E1V4X TIL that lie detectors are a complete hoax, they don't work at all, but the police still use them. The police are aware that they don't work, but use them to get the defendants to plead guilty.
d8rJZ TIL Satanists do not literally worship Satan. They are closer to an Atheist religion, and believe Satan is a positive archetype demonstrating pride, individualism and enlightenment and use Satan as a symbol of defiance against Abrahamic faiths.
xVJwk TIL that females of many mammal species have a bone in their clitoris called 'the baubellum or os clitoridis'
OoJKX TIL There is a vegetarian crocodile in India which has been living only on a diet of rice and jaggery for the last 60 years