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TIL 95% of the ocean is unexplored.

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neGYr TIL In 1895 there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio, yet they ended up crashing.
XZZr TIL in 1559 a (male) surgeon claimed to have discovered the clitoris, announcing “ "Since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, it should be called the love or sweetness of Venus”
Y709x TIL sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they do not float away from each other and they're scared of losing their mate to another.
0oMj TIL Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for his cure for Syphilis. He’d treat it by giving the patient Malaria.
p8JrN TIL that in the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $1000 for each time he was stung during the bee scene. He walked away with $23000.