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TIL woolly mammoths were still alive while the Great Pyramids were being built.

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gavy TIL it is illegal for employers to have a “no-beard” policy unless it affects your job-related tasks
m18Vo TIL only humans, orcas and pilot whales undergo menopause.
1akkP TIL Amputees have reported having orgasms in their feet.
m1oXE TIL the “Great Oil Sniffer Hoax” fooled French state oil company Elf Aquitaine in the 1970s into spending over $150 million on planes that supposedly detected underground oil from the air, before the technology was exposed as a fraud.
b1VN TIL of the Capitol Crawl, when over 100 handicapped people shed their wheelchairs & crutches and crawled up the stairs of Washington’s Capitol building, inconveniencing some senators and forcing them to adopt the ADA.