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TIL House fires will flash over in 5 min today but 50 years ago it took 29 min. UL attributes the change to synthetic materials.

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ZpALa TIL Female Kangaroos Have Three Vaginas. Marsupials, including the most popular one, the kangaroo, are equipped with a total of three vaginas. Three vaginas, two uteri, all there to serve their own joey-bearing purpose.
R7mV9 TIL the Pharoah Akhenaten broke tradition by only allowing the worship of Aten, the sun god. The statues of other gods were destroyed and many monuments to Aten were built. After his death, Akhenaten's monuments were dismantled, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers.
KYBX9 TIL there are regions for DVDs, and if your dvd player doesn’t match the disk’s region, it won’t play.
NL1E TIL popcorn became popular during the Great Depression because it was fairly inexpensive.
VZVk TIL. Many story arcs from the novel “Forrest Gump” didn’t make it into the film adaption. This includes Forrest going on a mission for NASA with an ape named Sue, being held by cannibals for four years and having a professional career as a wrestler, chess player and stuntman