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TIL in 2009 a Russian woman was prosecuted for raping ten men, out of which nine men pressed charges, while one man said he loved it.

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ANAa4 TIL about the Hoff crab. Named after David Hasslehoff, they eat microbes they farm in their chest hair.
jgAM TIL of John Jones, a caver who became trapped alone while navigating head first down a narrow section of cave. The rescue operation failed mid-way and he died in the cave. His body remains there today.
eLgD TIL Kristian Birkeland invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process (to extract nitrogen from the air for fertilizer) all to fund his true passion, researching the northern lights.
O90e TIL in 1868, samurai killed 11 French sailors. Over 30 samurai were ordered to commit suicide for the injustice; when the number was reduced to 20, the indignant samurai cut out their own intestines and flung them at the French. The sentence was then reduced to 11
Me0Qb TIL that during the Great Depression, companies would print colorful patterns onto flour sacks so that women can make dresses out of them