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TIL the human penis likely once had spines

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PaGn TIL Abraham Lincoln grew his famous beard because a 7 year old girl told him “All the ladies like whiskers”
KoMR TIL there are North Korean labor camps in Siberia, under an agreement between NK and a company run by British businessmen. The camps are tiny ‘home away from home’ villages complete with propaganda.
PYyMV TIL that during Vostok 4, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich said that he was able to observe thunderstorms from his spacecraft. However, he forgot that the Russian word for thunderstorms was the agreed upon code word for extreme nausea requiring immediate landing, and his mission was cut short.
R5Y84 TIL In 1986, biologist Noel Kempff Mercado and his team inadvertently stumbled upon a secret cocaine production facility in Bolivia’s Huanchaca National Park. The drug traffickers subsequently killed Kempff Mercado and most of his team. The national park would later be renamed after Kempff Mercado.
JYAjv TIL about Suryia, an orangutan from a sanctuary who approached and befriended a thin stray dog, Roscoe, during a walk to a lake. Roscoe stuck around and was immediately taken in by Suryia and the other orangutans almost like a beloved pet. They fed, groomed, petted, and played with him for years.