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TIL There is a Penis Museum in the center of Reykjavik

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6EBMQ TIL Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution
d8gJE TIL that entomologists and English speakers outside of North America call them Ladybirds not ladybugs. The ladybird beetle is not classified as a true bug.
YpRdB TIL High priced college textbooks bundled with "access codes" that expire at the end of the semester largely force students to buy books at retail prices at campus bookstores and render the texts worthless in the resale market. Nearly four in 10 college courses bundle their texts with access codes.
4dOo TIL that deep fried chicken was a Scottish tradition that was motivated in part by the desire to capture the caloric value of lard.
QN4EX TIL - lab cells cultured from a dead woman weigh more than her (over millions of tons)