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TIL half of British women cannot identify the vagina on a medical diagram.

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BgNPW TIL Mark Twain was one of the first American writers to document native islanders surfing in Polynesia. In his 1872 travelogue, “Roughing It”, Twain describes watching it, and even attempts it himself. But only once.
n0LG TIL the parents of an 11 year old boy were arrested and had their children temporarily taken away for letting him stay in their front yard alone for 90 minutes.
n6AB TIL a man in India took up odd part-time jobs so he could donate all his savings and regular income to those in need, every month for 30 years. After he retired as a librarian, he even donated his pension.
neZKP TIL of the "first night effect". During the first night in unfamiliar surroundings the left side of the brain stays awake and the right ear, which is connected to the left side of the brain, remains more alert to unusual sounds.
a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.