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TIL: When seceding from the US during the Civil War, Mississippi specifically noted slavery, not “states’ rights” as the primary reason.

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ADp8B TIL that uncooked spaghetti always break into more than two parts, a curious fact that already baffled Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. The riddle was only solved last year by scientists who managed to make spaghetti snap into only two parts with a trick.
8L5X TIL ‘Blue Balls’ are not simply an imagined pressure, but are in fact a physical build up of fluid resulting from unsatisfied sexual arousal.
PYrgn TIL the drum part in The End isn't an actual solo, as it was accompanied by guitar and tambourine; the instruments were just muted during mixing to make it seem like Ringo was playing a solo.
Jdj1 TIL that mullets are illegal in Iran.
wLL47 TIL that lottery winners in Australia can choose to remain annonymous after an 8 yr was kidnapped for ransom then murdered after the father won a lottery in 1960.