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TIL that Stuart Little isn't a mouse, he's a normal boy in "every way except that he is only just over two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse."

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pX8p TIL that “diphallia” is a condition where a man is born with two functioning penises.
kbLd TIL that the Chinese word for “contradiction”, 矛盾, consisting of the characters for “spear” and “shield” respectively, is said to derive from an old tale in which a Chinese merchant proclaimed to sell “spears that could pierce any shield” and “shields that could defend from all spear attacks”.
Adng TIL German Universities have FREE Tuition for International Students As Well
rB9W TIL that since 1912, many impractical ideas have been suggested to recover the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, including filling the wreck with ping-pong balls, injecting her with 180,000 tons of Vaseline, or using liquid nitrogen to turn her into a giant iceberg that would float back to the surface.
NExM TIL that the awesome 3-D sound we had in ‘90s games used binaural technology, but new games can’t use it because of patent issues.