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TIL that the term “Blow Job” comes from “Blow” being the Victorian slang for ejaculation.

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OGjW1 TIL in 2012, Spain’s King Juan Carlos I went elephant hunting in Botswana. The trip was meant to be secret, but he was badly injured and needed a medical flight home. A scandal erupted over the cost—and since he was an honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund at the time.
xVOro TIL an off-duty Brazilian policeman in uniform had a cell phone in his back pocket when he visited his parents to do laundry. His parents were being held hostage by 2 robbers; when the policeman turned to flee, the robbers shot him in the buttock, but his Nokia Lumia 520 phone stopped the bullet.
75WM TIL the fastest man made object that’s ever moved was an iron manhole cover, which traveled at five times the earth’s escape velocity at 0.02% the speed of light
GpME TIL there is frozen lake in India surrounded by hundreds of human skeletons. Scientists dated the skulls to about 850 AD and concluded that all of them had died due to a freak hailstorm
8aMPX TIL the woman in the famous "Migrant Mother" photo was Florence Owens Thompson, a Cherokee woman and widow who came from Oklahoma to California with her second husband during the Great Depression. Her 10 children all survived poverty and starvation and later bought her a house. She lived to be 80.