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TIL that it has been argued that the "rib" (צְלָעֹת ṣela‘, also translated "flank" or "side") in the story of Adam and Eve is actually a mistranslation of a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum, a bone found in the penis of many placental mammals but that is absent in the human penis.

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j6BJE TIL the planet Venus has a "quasi-satellite" called 524522 Zoozve that looks like it orbits the planet but actually orbits the Sun. It's been co-orbital with Venus for the last 7,000 years but most likely will be ejected in 500 years
v9L TIL Rolex is a lot of hype and became expensive during the 80’s with ‘yuppies’ buying them up. They also are not handmade and are mass produced.
D1xWr TIL of Lachhiman Gurung, A Nepalese Gurkha who lost his arm in battle but continued to fight with his bolt action rifle, single handedly holding off over 200 Japanese troops and killing 31 until the next morning.
kOWgB TIL that archaeologists in India, found though carbon dating, a chariot that dates back to bronze age (Approx 4000 BC). This suggests that Europeans and Indo-Iranians were two separate groups (albeit of a common origin - Proto-Afroasiatic) and challenges the Aryan Invasion Theory
DWVv TIL in 1991 the tallest structure in the world at the time (a radio tower in Poland) collapsed due to poor maintenance. No structure exceeded the height of the collapsed Warsaw Radio Tower until the Bujr Khalifa was completed in Dubai nearly two decades later.