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TIL that about 1 in 6 men have "stage fright" when they have to pee around other men, this phenomenon is called parauresis.

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Mel0A TIL that in 2015 a German student used his countries FOIA to request the answers to an upcoming final exam.
x69JB TIL - (on my medicine board review exam) Evidenced-based research found that Tai Chai has beneficial outcomes on patients with KNEE osteoarthritis.
Me0jb TIL that the United States occupied Greenland during WWII to prevent it from being captured by the Nazis. After the war ended, they offered to buy it from Denmark for $100 million, but Denmark refused.
mQR TIL That American soldiers in WW2 used the challenge “flash”, “thunder”, “welcome” because Germans could not pronounce the “th” or “w” sound appropriately
JYj71 TIL many African-Americans have Irish surnames (e.g. Shaquille O'Neal) because Irish and Blacks lived side by side in the ghettos of 19th century America.