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TIL: Tapping the top of your motorcycle helmet is the same as flashing your lights at somebody to warn them about cops or speed traps. pass it on

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WkGNd TIL cows are the female animal once they have had a baby calf. Heifers are cows that haven't had a baby yet. Bulls are the males capable of mating and steers are bulls that have been castrated (only removing testicles). The general descriptor for the species as a whole is "cattle"
W771N TIL that for more than 50 years, Chicago Public Schools required that Male Students be nude while attending Swimming Classes. Female students were allowed to wear swimsuits.
yAbl TIL that all Sikh places of worship serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religious, regional, cultural, racial, caste, or class affiliations.
x6oLb TIL that candies such as candy corn, whoppers and milk duds are covered in an insect secretion
XEnbP TIL The Crypt of the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini church in Rome is decorated with thousands of human skeletons and bones. A placard addressed at those who enter the crypt, reads "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be."