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TIL Turkeys blush when excited

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awddM TIL a unit of measurement common in Sweden and Norway, but not in Denmark, is the Scandinavian Mile, or the Mil, pronounced like meal. It is equal to 10 kilometres, but has been longer in the past.
epypb TIL that Apollo 12 3rd stage has been orbiting the earth-sun-moon system for over 50 years
R7p6l TIL that in the 1999 movie Matrix, Neo's passport expires on September 11, 2001
DQM1v TIL there are cases in which women have eaten their own placentas after childbirth because they believed it helped with depression, post delivery bleeding, and improved mood; there is no evidence it does any of these things.
b6J9j TIL around 2,000 mentally ill WW2 veterans were lobotomized against their will for things such as PTSD, depression and homosexuality