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TIL There is a man drought in Australia. 100,000 fewer men than women.

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Me0k7 TIL of the greenheart tree, whose wood is so strong it cannot be worked on with regular tools
grBP8 TIL on average your skin fully regenerates itself every 27 days. So just about every month you have entirely new skin.
R78e1 TIL that for Japanese traffic lights blue means go! A very blue shade of green is used, green enough to satisfy international regulations. This is because historically the Japanese language only had words for black, white, red, and blue, and that green is considered a shade of blue.
DZQp TIL that the hole in the middle of a spaghetti spoon is for measuring out one serving of dry spaghetti
kJ9aW TIL the inventor of first machine gun, Richard Gatling thought machine gun would actually decrease the casualties of war by reducing size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease. Also, that terror of such a weapon would discourage war altogether.