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TIL that every dog testicle examined in a study contained microplastics. So did human testicles

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MDlm TIL that when silly putty comes into contact with alcohol, it will lose its properties, and become flammable when submerged in hot or warm water.
9w6Nm TIL Mercator maps were never intended as general-purpose world maps. The massive distortion of geographical geometry is a side-effect of the map's special feature: simple marine navigation. A course along any constant compass direction is represented on the map as a straight line.
1amPD TIL ‘Glass Cliff’ is a phenomenon where women are more likely to be in leadership roles during times of crisis, causing them to have higher chance of failure.
XEWJ6 TIL A turkey is called a Hindi in Turkey because of everyone being confused as to where this bird came from in the days of the New World
5Yr7B TIL about portable nukes in the 1960s, intended for US Soldiers to parachute with into Soviet-occupied Europe and manually (suicidally) detonate.