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TIL: You cannot hum while holding your nose. There, just made you try!

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MeYw0 TIL that there's a town in the Dominican republic which for some time has had a regular population of children who appear female throughout childhood, but develop male organs during puberty. They call these boys "guevedoces" which is slang for "eggs (testes) at twelve".
R5x98 TIL, in 1976 alone, the Indian government sterilized 6.2 million men
X0vOj TIL The most common cause of violent death in almost all countries is road traffic crashes
neoRr TIL Your body automatically stuffs and un-stuffs alternating nostrils so you only use one nostril at a time. This is called the "nasal cycle."
mx1AE TIL Only 11% of Japanese people are willing to fight for their country, the lowest in the world. In both Morocco and Fiji, it is 94%.