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TIL a new blood test can detect 50 different types of cancer
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TIL ‘Blue Balls’ are not simply an imagined pressure, but are in fact a physical build up of fluid resulting from unsatisfied sexual arousal.
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TIL when Nadia Comaneci got a perfect ten for the first time in Olympic history, the scoreboard read “1.00” because the scoreboard manufacturer was told not to add a fourth digit place because “a perfect ten is not possible”
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TIL the reason behind the missing holes in IKEA's duvet covers. In Scandinavia we always have holes in the corners of our duvet covers, since it makes it easier to make the bed. Apparently IKEA had to remove this since so many customers in other countries thought it was torn and complained about it.
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TIL that Clancy Brown the main guard in Shawshank Redemption is the voice actor of Mr. Krabs from Spongebob.
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TIL in February 1864 over 100 union prisoners of escaped Libby Prison in Virginia. Making it one of the most successful prison breaks of the civil war.