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TIL that anxiety and/or stress can cause fevers.

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M6Yb TIL there are four bags of astronaut poop on the moon left behind from Neil Armstrong on his Apollo mission to the moon.
wLpkE TIL that British Member of Parliament, Arnold Wilson, joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in October 1939. He stated that "I have no desire to shelter myself and live in safety behind the ramparts of the bodies of millions of our young men."
9Yk0p TIL that in 2006, a Sudanese man was caught committing beastiality with a neighbor’s goat. The goat’s owner insisted that since the criminal had treated the goat as his wife, he should have to marry it. Thus, the man was forced to pay a dowry of $75 USD and “married” the goat.
LknMV TIL that in 1977, the FBI started to build a tunnel under the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C to eavesdrop on the Soviets; the construction took years, was riddled with complications, and worse yet - the Soviets knew about the tunnel because of a tip-off
4knN5 TIL that between April 2021 and January 2022, 34 cockfight enthusiasts (locally called sabungeros) from areas of Luzon, Philippines, went missing.