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TIL: North Koreans have the smallest penis size when sorted by country

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OojAe TIL that Baylisascaris or "Raccoon Roundworm" can infected humans and other mammals through ingestion of Raccoon feces. The larvae migrate to the brains and eyes and cause damage making the organism easier prey for the raccoon.
x66Xb TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.
DQgQv TIL John Walsh (America's Most Wanted) strongly pushed for a bill that put men who date under age girls on the sex offender list. Walsh dated his wife when she was 16 and he was in his 20s. According to his own bill he should be on the sex offender list. He is not.
1aa4V Short answer: not very
KYeP9 TIL: Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters of the British Post Office were wrongfully prosecuted for supposed "financial irregularities" and 13 of them ended up committing suicide. The "financial irregularities" were in fact caused by a bug in the accounting software.