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TIL that roosters don’t have a penis. They pump their sperm into females using a 'cloacal kiss'

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VaEQ TIL “Surprise me” were the last words of the 100 year-old, legendary comedian Bob Hope, responding to his wife’s question regarding where he would like to be buried.
rNN9e TIL in 1999, Danish physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 38 mph (61 kmph), and was later able to stop it completely, manipulate it, even move it to a different location.
455 TIL the Disney park “EPCOT” was originally supposed to be a Utopian society that could hold 20,000 people.
rRdQ1 TIL that Schizophrenia's hallucinations are shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices/hallucinations. In India and Africa people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and positive voices
oBNKA TIL in the event of Britain being destroyed and her government wiped out, there is a safe on four nuclear equipped submarine that contains the Prime Ministers ‘Letters Of Last Resort’. Nobody except the PM knows what it says.