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TIL Hobos use symbols to communicate to other hobos

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NWVP TIL Chad has the world’s healthiest diet even though it is an extremely poor nation. It has access to vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and fish, but almost no availability of processed meat and sugary beverages, or foods containing trans fats or sodium
p6Pb TIL when an underwater bubble is popped with a soundwave, it produces light. After 70 years of trying, scientists still can’t explain it
gMObb TIL many of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the female reproductive system got details wrong. Due to the rarity of female cadavers, he extrapolated from animals, with the resulting drawings of the female reproductive organs resembling those of animals more than humans.
b61Z9 TIL of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which permitted widowed men to marry their dead wife's sister, which had previously not been legal. Under the act, a man marrying his divorced but living ex-wife's sister was still forbidden.
Z81yG TIL actor Jim Carrey wrote a fictitious autobiography that includes Chinese conspiracies, faking versions of celebrities, hallucinogenic dialogues, battling aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and dressing up before going to bed as he’s afraid of selfies taken at the morgue if he dies in his sleep.