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TIL the Unicode standard officially supports the penis symbol as an Egyptian hieroglyph

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16aa8 TIL naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by metabolizing fructose instead of glucose.
aw00Z TIL that in medieval years, an hour was divided into 4 puncta (quarter-hours), 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. So if you asked someone to "wait a moment", turns out that you really asked them to wait for about 90 seconds.
r8Gx TIL the box-office mega-flop “Battlefield Earth” was co-produced by John Travolta (a Scientologist and the film’s villain) and based on an L. Ron Hubbard book. Its production company was convicted of fraud and went bankrupt.
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