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TIL the standard “headphone jack” connector has been roughly the same since 1878

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neaZG TIL that retired astronaut, Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper, accidentally lost a bag of tools during a spacewalk in 2008. The tools, valued at $100,000, were lost when she accidentally pushed aside the bag they were in and it floated away.
epm6g TIL that 38% of the world's cocoa beans to make chocolate is produced in one country - Côte d'Ivoire. Cocoa accounts for 40% of this African nation's income from exports
M7X4W TIL that the gender of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the sand... the saying goes, "hot chicks, cool dudes".
16bO8 TIL that sanitary towels don't stick to the vagina. Instead they stick to the inside of the underwear. I'm a man btw
wLkDE TIL the US entered the Vietnam War after an American naval ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin... except the attack never happened. There wasn't even a North Vietnamese ship in the area.