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TIL female worms shrivel and die after giving birth due to the presence of male sperm and seminal fluid

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W7xmY TIL the word “bidet” is French for “pony”, referring to how low one squats over the fixture
m1rEp TIL Garbage's song 'Fix Me Now' was originally called 'Chris Cornell': in a Yahoo! interview in 2017, one day after Chris' passing, singer Shirley Manson told she was once so 'obsessed' with Cornell that she nearly named the song after him.
lZjK TIL of Tibetan Sky Burials, a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposing to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially birds of prey.
7rOyX TIL Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, totaling 297 billion barrels. In addition to conventional oil, Venezuela has oil sands deposits similar in size to those of Canada, and approximately equal to the world's reserves of conventional oil.
J1r78 TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period between the invention of sound in films and creation of the MPA, which produced socially-progressive and anti-capitalist films in the 1920s before Republican & Catholic-led censorship