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TIL there's a park in South Korea dedicated to penises

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MedrB TIL about the Falkirk Wheel, the world's only rotating boat lift, which lifts boats 80 feet between two canals. What used to take 11 locks and most of a day now takes about 10 minutes.
XD0j TIL that ~47% of Italians are functionally illiterate
QLXE TIL the US government arrested (Using Patriot Act) and detained a woman claiming to be a CIA agent, argued that she be forcibly drugged (3 drugs), because she was trying to tell Congress that CIA knowingly ignored intelligence for 9/11
Z88QR Related: Do they change the surrounding temperature?
rRdQ1 TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices/hallucinations. In India and Africa people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and positive voices