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TIL that the distance between a man’s anus and genitalia can be used as an indicator of fertility.

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QkxE TIL an old Persian curse: Guz bi rishit, “May a fart be on your beard.”
LYWr TIL that a man accused of embezzling $8.7 million hid from law enforcement by hiking the Appalachian Trail for six years.
epMlD TIL about the Boxheim Files, which were leaked in Germany in 1931 and in which the NSDAP planned, in case of Communist uprising, to take over the government, creating military courts and concentration camps against dissenters
grOEy TIL The Hale telescope features a 200 inch (5.08m) diameter mirror. The mirror took 10 months anneal and was delivered to Caltech in 1936. The telescope was completed in 1948 as it took years of grinding and polishing to make the mirror accurate to 2/1,000,000ths of an inch of a perfect paraboloid.
5VXQQ TIL about black swan events, major events that were rationalised in hindsight as predictable but were outside of the imaginable for people at the time of their occurrence . Examples for these are the 9/11 attacks, the start of WWI and the dissolution of the USSR.