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TIL that approximately 7% of our weight is our blood

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m76P TIL that Guantanamo Bay has a few fast food restaurants on base, and prisoners who cooperate in interrogations have been given McDonald’s Happy Meals as rewards
1aA78 TIL that the Soviet AA-2 Atoll missile was reverse engineered from a US AIM-9 Sidewinder after it became lodged in a Chinese MiG-17 without exploding. The lead Soviet engineer at Vympel said, the missile was a "university offering a course in missile construction technology."
KyKR TIL that the word “vagina” is latin for ‘sheath’ or 'scabbard’. So basically, it’s where you put your sword.
6EraY TIL about Amaxophobia an abnormal or persistent fear of being in, or riding in, a vehicle. Amaxophobic sufferers riding in a vehicle will typically fear the accident and its consequences, especially injury or death.
ADDNx TIL The name “Brân” in Welsh is usually translated as crow or raven, and there was a mythological king of Britain in Welsh mythology called Brân the Blessed