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TIL that Cowboys didn’t actually wear cowboy hats. ????????????

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87NV TIL kangaroos hop because they can’t move their legs independently.
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]
RkZ4 TIL a Salvadoran consul saved up to 40,000 people from the Nazis by giving them fake identity papers. Barely anybody has heard of him.
wLlyE TIL There was once a camel in North America with a neck like a giraffe.
WxDY TIL that as a child, Marshall Mathers (Eminem) was bullied so severely, he ended up in the hospital with a concussion and temporary blindness