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TIL there's a fear of long words and it's name is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

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OGYw1 TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born.
lovv1 TIL Bananas get their curve because they grow towards the Sun.
Ob5e TIL that your nose is always visible to you. Your mind ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.
OG6YX TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when he saw the name misspelled as "Edmond" in Newsweek magazine. He felt the misspelling dishonored the memory of the 29 men who died when the freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975.
PYdVV TIL Marijuana flowers are either male or female. Many marijuana plants have either only male or only female flowers, but some have both on the same plant.