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TIL Flavor Flav is a huge supporter of women’s water polo and is the US Artist in Residence in Paris supporting them

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VMB8k TIL the Wright brothers didn't like to fly together in fear of both of them dying in an accident. They wanted at least one of them to survive to carry on research.
8a8VK TIL the modern drinking straw was developed to prevent tainting the flavor of a mint julip which happened when using a grass straw
epndE TIL about de Clérambault's Syndrome, a disorder where someone has delusions of another person being infatuated with them. One case involved a woman who believed King George V of England was communicating his love for her by moving the curtains at Buckingham Palace.
ZpWPD TIL of the Lodz Ghetto, where at one point 15000 'useless eaters' deemed 'not fit to work', mainly children under 10, were rounded up and taken away from their families to be exterminated. Some families committed collective suicide.
Ypxnv TIL female kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteruses. The two side vaginas carry sperm to each uterus, while the middle vagina sends the joey to the outside world. This can allow female kangaroos to be perpetually pregnant with one joey developing in her pouch and another in the other uterus.