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TIL Penis size is genetic.
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TIL that Victorian market sellers used back slang (reversing the letters in words) in order to talk behind customers’ backs, giving birth to words such as ‘yob.’
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TIL one of the earliest confirmed European residents/migrants to China were the Vilionis, a Genoese merchant family who lived there in the mid-1300s. Their existence was discovered in 1951 when one Katarina Vilioni's (a daughter) tombstone was unearthed in Yangzhou, the city where they once resided.
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TIL President Kennedy initially suggested a Mars mission because he was unconvinced that a moon landing was bold enough to prove American superiority over the Soviets
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TIL the song 'Weapon of Choice' by Fatboy Slim (2001) has the lyrics 'Walk without Rhythm, it won't attract the worm' which is a quote from Frank Herbert's Dune (1965). The music video features a dancing Christopher Walken who would later join the cast of the Dune Part II (2024).
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TIL The James Randi Educational Foundation will pay $1,000,000 to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation. In the 50 years it’s been running, no one has passed the preliminary test.