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TIL that feel-good, bubblegum pop is an indicator of a recession

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gr0yy TIL of the Rio Negro Bridge at Manaus, Brazil, a huge and expensive bridge that is the only crossing point of the Amazon or any major tributary. It has been called "a quintessential bridge to nowhere" and does absolutely nothing to connect Manaus to Brazil's road network
8ebmL TIL male dragonflies have two penises, and one of them is used to scoop out another male’s sperm from the female they want to mate with
wL6Z6 TIL Bob Marley moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.
D1kjV TIL, medieval surgeons in England used complicated surgeries learnt from the Arabs including jaw-reconstruction
kJZkE TIL that spelling bees are an English phenomenon. Languages like Italian and German usually don't have them because they have consistent spelling unlike English