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TIL Winston Churchill got Iran to change its name to Persia, to avoid confusion with Iraq during WW2

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e0rw4 TIL 94% of male giraffe sexual encounters are with other male giraffes. Every 16 out of 17 mountings in a 3 year Tanzanian national park study we’re male-on-male mountings. 9 of the 16 mountings featured an unsheathed penis.
8aAY4 TIL In 1972, Neil Armstrong visited the town of Langholm, Scotland. In which he was read a 400 year old law declaring any Armstrong caught in the town should be hanged
J1ZDB TIL You’ve never actually touched anything. When you “touch” an object, your atoms don’t make contact — you’re feeling electromagnetic repulsion between electrons. Your brain interprets that force as touch.
Y7nWv TIL that the Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany is the oldest public housing complex in the world, being founded all the way back to the 1510s.
m1KOO TIL in 1972 a meteor grazed the earth atmosphere and in doing so changes its trajectory, scientist predicted the meteor would come back to earth in 1997 but never did, so the object's trajectory and position remains unknown.