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TIL I learned the popular phrase “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” was originally created to highlight the impossibility of getting out of a bad situation on one’s own, regardless of how hard one works.

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7rb7x TIL of Primate Cities, which are cities that are dominant in their country/subdivision in such a way that it is the centre of said country/subdivision (e.g. New York City in the state of New York)
7G4x TIL that during the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a small satchel on the moon containing Yuri Gagarin’s medals, to commemorate his achievement of being the first man in space.
4Y76 TIL: Marijuana can cause priapism, a painful erection lasting more than 4 hours.
prYA TIL that “in the second grade [Shakira] rejected from the school choir because her vibrato was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded ‘like a goat’.”
a8Mg9 TIL that frequent and constant use of earphones increases the bacterial growth in the ear