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TIL the female equivalent to the word “phallic” is “yonic.”

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4kZ76 TIL The Rosetta Stone was discovered by French soldiers in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign in the city of Rosetta. The stone was inscribed with the same decree in three scripts hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek which proved to be the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
x6JRD TIL that the inspiration for the 1965 book and 1967 film The Dirty Dozen was the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army aka the Filthy Thirteen.
Z8OmR TIL Around one in four Labradors apparently have a gene variant that leaves them feeling constantly hungry with no 'off-switch' when they're full.
xVVn0 Short answer: It’s spiritualist bunk that reflected the science of its time
jNV6a TIL that Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock´s fifty two year friendship began when Woodstock and his brother hatched from eggs in a nest that their mother made on top of Snoopy´s belly, a year later in 1967, Woodstock came back to perch on Snoopy´s nose, thus beginning their long fellowship.