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TIL 40% of Americans can't come up with $400 in an emergency

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j6Maj TIL: It's possible for a woman to menstruate through their bellybutton (umbilical endometriosis)
amv0 TIL that since his death all VLC Media Player updates have been named after the works of the late great Terry Pratchett
VMwOD TIL, when creating a forever stamp of the Statue of Liberty, the US Postal Service accidentally used a stock photo of the replica from Las Vegas's New York, New York, instead of a picture of the real one. When the mistake was discovered, they said they would have used that picture anyway.
RQ4l TIL that some German nursing homes have fake bus stops to collect residents with Dementia who wander away.
BgONx TIL of the juiced ball theory, which suggests that the baseballs used in the MLB have been altered by the league to increase scoring. The theory came about in the late 90s and early 2000s, but the theory receded and has now been attributed to steroid use in the league at that time