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TIL Miami, FL has not reached 100F since 1942.

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My6b TIL that the penis is shaped like that to scoop off the semen of rivals in the vagina. Also the last drops of a guy’s ejaculate actually have spermacide in them, to make sure that a guy coming next will have less of a chance.
MeLNV TIL that one of the writers/creators of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time", Jermaine Fuller, died in an 11-hour police standoff. His brother-in-law, Snoop Dog, attempted to calm him down but to no avail.
nW61d TIL that the balloon was invented by Michael Faraday
yQ4re TIL that Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel prize winning philosopher, suffered a bad trip after using Mescaline, in which he thought he was menaced by sea creatures. For years following this, he consistently believed that he was being followed by lobsters.
nevW7 TIL exponential, log and trig functions are examples of transcendental functions, which "transcend" algebra as they can't be expressed with a sequence of the algebraic operations of addition, multiplication and root extraction. Unlike algebraic functions, they can't satisfy polynomial equations.