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TIL that there is a secret apartment within the Eiffel Tower. To this day, it is rarely open for public viewing.

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mxobP TIL about a "Rabbit Test", a now retired pregnancy test, in which urine from a human female would be injected into a female rabbit. The rabbit would later be dissected to annualize the effect on it's ovaries. "The rabbit died", used to be slang for getting pregnant.
W6LA TIL the lead singer of Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron, had so much sex that his penis exploded, literally.
Bg01b TIL that some UPS trucks use the headlights from the Oldsmobile Alero
NXvxQ TIL about Doggerland, which was an area in northern Europe once home to fertile lands and hunter-gatherers, and is now submerged beneath the North Sea due to rising sea levels and a tsunami
R5lZl TIL that pilots can choose to re-land a plane halfway through the runway if they aren't happy with the landing.