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TIL humans are the only mammal species that have completely lost their penis bone

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gX0y TIL: There is a tree in Utah named “Pando” that is estimated to weigh over 13,000,000 lbs and has lived for over 80,000 years
78eWp TIL the earliest known reference to a red carpet is from 458 BC, in an Ancient Greek play. After defeating Troy, the king Agamemnon is welcomed home w/ a carpet of crimson tapestries & silk. He's uncomfortable with it, since to him, only gods walk on such luxury, while mortals should be more humble
YpXWB TIL that Grant and Tory from the Mythbusters' B-team are only three years younger than Adam Savage.
Qmv9 TIL: That the dewey decimal system, used to classify and order books in libraries, has one for Extraterrestrial History: 999. Aparently the guy who made this system in the 1800s was already prepared for an interplanetary/interstellar future for humanity
nepld TIL that 20 years before the first woman was democratically elected in 1980 as president of a country (namedly Iceland), stateswoman Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was elected as prime minister, when she led her party to victory at the 1960 general election.