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TIL women care more about a man’s shoulder to hip ratio than they do about penis size.

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epnnn TIL the Volkswagen Taos is named after Taos, New Mexico - the home of John Muir, who wrote the 1969 book "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive; A Manual of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.".
aWkJ TIL Donald Trump proposed a one-time wealth tax of 14.24% on individuals worth $10 million or more. Trump calculated that this would generate $5.7 trillion in new taxes, which could be used to eliminate the national debt, but understood no conventional politician would ever have the guts to do it.
9Y85m TIL when Mark Twain started learning German, he noted humourously "In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl."
9E1G TIL if the space between the Earth and the Sun were filled with air, the Sun would be louder than a train horn. We, on Earth, would constantly hear it at 125 decibels – for comparison, a train horn 1 meter away comes in at 120 decibels.
8ep64 TIL that L. Ron Hubbard is the most prolific writer of all time, publishing 1,084 works between 1934 and 2006