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TIL that one of Lou Gehrig's nicknames was "Biscuit Pants"

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b6jm4 TIL people can get stones in your scrotum, just like they can get bladder and kidney stones. They are called "scrotal pearls" or "scrotoliths" and are benign calfications within the scrotal sac.
P1boe TIL The American B-1 Lancer bomber, nicknamed the "Bone" (from B-one), had a proposed variant in 2004 called the B-1R, or "Boner"
W7bA TIL that the New Zealand All Blacks are the most winning team in any sport anywhere in the world.
woljE TIL of an attempt to establish the first English settlement in America in 1587 -- before Jamestown -- called the Roanoke Colony. When a ship visited the settlement in 1590, the town was found deserted with the word "Croatoan" carved on a post. The whereabouts of the 117 colonists remains unknown.
gMOV8 TIL chipping a stone ax like early humans did 1.8 million years ago activates the same brain circuits used by modern human musicians