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TIL there are words known mostly by men or mostly by women

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b9Mjp TIL In 1911, Bobby Leach was the 2nd person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He died 15 years later from slipping on an orange peel and getting gangrene
OoDQg TIL Twice as many soldiers died from disease than battle injuries during the American Civil War. Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent that there was an honor code among soldiers – you couldn’t shoot a man while he was pooping.
KPYR TIL that due to the inclusion of a leap day and two leap seconds, 1972 is the longest year in history.
Y7RJ7 TIL the French nobility is still around and larger than before the Revolution
NXprb Today I Learned that Hitler forced the French to surrender in WW2 in the same carriage the Germans Surrendered in, in WW1.