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TIL: The driest place on Earth gets 4 inches of rain every 1000 years.

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AD6Xn TIL One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
84eV TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’
Oor0L TIL A 2014 linguistics study on filler words found that women use “um” ~22% more than men, men say “uh” 250% more than women, & men use filler words ~38% more than women. When speaking to the opposite gender, men use “uh” ~14% less & “um” ~8% more, while women use “uh” ~20% more & “um” ~1% less.
WkPAL TIL that according to a Welsh study of 1000 men over the course of 20 years, men who had two or more orgasms per week died at half the rate of men who had less than that number of orgasm per month.
XoE TIL that there is a body of water in space that is large enough to give every person on earth enough water to fill the planet’s oceans.