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TIL that Italy didn't have tomatoes and India didn't have peppers until the Americas were discovered

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woVoM TIL that a trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird.
4gjR TIL that a fire fighter who was receiving $75,000-a-year disability pension, got caught competing in brutal kickboxing competitions
7rQ7L TIL The first scientist who observed necrophilia in penguins was so disturbed that he tried to obscure his findings
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Wkle4 TIL the universe was once exactly room temperature (between 10 to 17 million years after the Big Bang).