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TIL "Blowing smoke up someone's ass" refers to the medical practice of a tobacco enema

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KOnDQ TIL That the Nobel prizes (~$1mil USD each) are paid out of the interest earned on the fund left behind by Alfred Nobel's will. Not the fund itself.
6PlQ TIL On this day 55 years ago NASA was created by Dwight D. Eisenhower
nW8xG TIL that the gender of a sea turtle is based off the temperature of the eggs incubation. 27.7 degrees Celsius and below will be male, and 31 degrees Celsius and above will be female. In between both temperatures can create either male or female.
l7ap1 TIL that the President of Nintendo America is actually named Bowser
DQdGe TIL that after mosquitoes, other humans, snakes, and sandflies, dogs are the deadliest animal to humans.