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TIL there is a 155 chapter long book that makes sense no matter what chapter you choose to read first or last.

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VNmG TIL; The Vatican City walls were built to keep out pirates.
A8Rn TIL that up until the mid-1980’s, female flight attendants in the US were required to be single (either unmarried or widowed) and were fired if they decided to get married.
mx5jp TIL that lemons, limes and most of the other citrus fruits we eat do not occur naturally in the wild - they are the result of generations of interbreeding between various combinations of the four "original" citrus fruits
e6pg TIL That in Korea, wisdom teeth are called “love teeth” in reference to young adulthood and the pain of first love
oRwZr TIL a study tested 23 human testes & 47 pet dog testes and found microplastics in every sample. The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes: 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared with 123 micrograms.