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TIL that women's farts generally smell far worse than men's because they contain remarkably higher levels of hydrogen sulfide.

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epM4b TIL that during World War II, a British zoo placed a female panda named Ming in an underground shelter to keep her safe from bombing raids. Ming became a local celebrity and was considered a symbol of resilience during the war.
ADkBd TIL in 1935 a recently-captured shark vomited up a tatooed human arm. When a medical examination of the arm revealed it had not been bitten off by the shark but had been removed from its body in a non-surgical procedure, the focus of the investigation turned to murder.
GYBoj TIL that a week after Jim Croce died at 30 in a plane crash, his widow received a letter from him promising to stop performing, get a master's degree, and write short stories and movie scripts. It ended "it's the first sixty years that count and I've got 30 left."
neRJr TIL that in Portugal they have traffic lights that turn red if you are speeding
MgJK TIL, that psychologist Dr. John Gottman, created the magic ratio of 5:1. That a relationship is likely to be stable if there are five times as many positive interactions between partners as there are negative.