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TIL that there is a Phallological Museum located in Reykjavík, Iceland which houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts and the collection holds well over 300 penises from more than 100 species of mammal.

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x6Le1 TIL a tropical storm hit Long Beach, California in 1939 which is the only cyclone to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. Such events are rare in the Pacific because cyclones feed off the energy stored in warm ocean waters but weaken in the cool waters of the California Current
wLQXo TIL: An amateur Egyptologist, Seamus Blackley, successfully baked bread with 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from ancient Egyptian ceramics once used to bake bread and brew beer. The dormant yeast was activated by a nutrient solution injected into the ceramics during the extraction process
KQaE TIL that there are completely Black Chickens that have black plumage, black legs and nails, black beak and tongue, black comb and wattles, black meat and bones and even dark organs.
J1aJQ TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God.
yQVZM TIL that on 1985 and on 1987, the then dictator of Burma (today Myanmar) Ne Win demonetised banknotes based on numerology (removing 50/100 kyat banknotes and adding 75/45/90 kyat banknotes without previous warning). The resulting economical instability led to a coup d'êtát on 1988.