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TIL Penguins poop about every 8 minutes

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W7LOA TIL In the 19th Century, women cyclists were warned they might get "bicycle face" with bulging eyes and jutting chins.
8e6aP TIL in 1590, starving Parisians ground human bones into bread
9eDD TIL that while the word “thong” comes from the Old English “thwong”, a flexible leather cord, other languages use various euphemisms: in Brazil it is “fio dental” (dental floss); in Bulgarian “prashka” (slingshot); Chinese it is dingziku (丁字褲/丁字裤) which roughly means T-letter pants
P95L TIL that Russia has so many dashcams because drivers use them to avoid road rage induced fights, denied hit and run insurance claims, and extortion scams.
XEkVP TIL: 100 years ago a pandemic spread around the globe killing more people in months than any illness in recorded history. In just one year the average life expectancy in America dropped by 12 years.