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TIL that women are twice as likely than men to be Constipated. This finding is consistent across 11 different studies.

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d1rd TIL that in Texas, vertically-painted purple lines on a property boundary legally perform the same function as a fence or no trespassing sign.
YG6Z TIL In 2004 a 13yo girl was walking to school but was shot and wounded at a distance by IDF soldiers. As she cowered, wounded behind a rock an Israeli captain went up to her and emptied 17 bullets from his rifle into her at point blank range. The captain was exonerated and later promoted to a Major.
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
Zp7Vp TIL that long before the I phone, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs Earned money by making and selling "blue boxes:" electronic devices that allowed people (phreakers) to make long distance calls without being charged for them by AT&T.
1aMvO TIL Sega sold their own line of rear-projection TV’s in the 70’s. It was called the SEGA Vision and came in 3 different models with two size choices, 44 and 50 inch. While it never reached commercial success it did end up as a prize on an episode of The Price Is Right