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

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OEJ1 TIL the Chinese had guns and a firearm that looks like a modern rifle in the 1300s
1aORO TIL Alaska has a fund that provides over $1000 annually to every resident
e0ZZg TIL that glass blocks the wavelength of light required for the body to synthesize Vitamin D.
GJEJ TIL of 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, that demonstrate women are as physically aggressive, or more, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.
5NQD TIL that the terms “hooker” and “sideburns” were popularized and invented respectively during the Civil War. General Joseph Hooker’s army was known to party and hire prostitutes, while General Ambrose Burnside’s facial hair spoke for itself