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TIL that 1 in 1,000 males are born with Hypospadias

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Ood44 TIL that French fries are called like this, because it come from the type of cut, the "French cut" referred to "Julienning" (julienne in french) the term "French fry" was alluded to when, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson requested "potatoes served in the French manner" to accompany a White House meal.
rbPx TIL that for the first 22 years of its history Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. Founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a ‘pest and scourge of mankind.’
78ZM TIL The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on earth.
r5Q1 TIL Janet Leigh, star of Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, was so traumatized upon first viewing of the infamous shower scene in which she was stabbed to death, that she refused to take a shower ever again IRL and only took baths.
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