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TIL researchers found that the higher rating of voice attractiveness for women correlates with having a smaller waist-to-hip ratio, a body type that is commonly found to be more attractive in women.

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VBpZ8 Today I learned that in the earliest version of the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill", Jill was a boy named Gill.
G5bN TIL babies exposed to sign language babble silently with their hands even if they can hear.
W7J7o TIL that 4th, 5th, and 6th degree burns exist.
4E1N TIL that inserting swear words into other words (e.g. “abso-fucking-lutely”) is referred to as expletive infixiation.
Y71B7 TIL that during WW2, the US gov't banned sliced bread (so that the hardened steel normally used in bread slicing machines could be put towards the war effort). After a huge public outcry, the ban was lifted after only seven weeks.