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TIL That the term 'Spam' came from a Monty Python sketch where the word spam was repeated continuously

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WkZAo TIL Australians used to hold each other's genitals as a form of greeting and to refuse a penis was a sign of hostility.
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”
8exyV TIL that The Great Attractor. In the realm of cosmic mysteries, it is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. It's pulling galaxies towards it, including our own.
al1L TIL The U.S. in 1899-1902 used Concentration camps, water cure and the destruction of crops to starve the Filipino population into submission costing up to 600.000 civilian deaths.
wLEv7 TIL Scientists can use a person's own stem cells to make male eggs and female sperm. They have also successfully fertilized a male mouse with an egg cell made of its own cells, producing healthy offspring only from a single mouse's genome. So far, this has not been tested with humans.