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TIL the brown paths of worn down grass are called "desire paths"

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5Vw5Q TIL in 1982, Sune Bergstrom won the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. His son Svante Pääbo, who was the result of an affair, won the same prize in 2022, despite a very distant relationship with his father. This was the 8th time a parent-child pair both received the Nobel.
epOr5 TIL that about twice as many people died constructing V-2 rockets than the rockets killed throughout it's use as a weapon of war
jvVa TIL according to MIT the toughest tongue twister is: “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod”
pajp TIL in 1945 the New Zealand Division alone fought the Nazis to take Trieste, in Italy. When it was secured, US Marines organised a parade, headed by themselves with a banner ‘US Marines. Second to None.’ Behind them marched the NZD carrying a sheet with the word ‘None.’
yVbje TIL about the merkin. It is a vaginal wig, originally donned by prostitutes starting in the 15th century. They shaved to minimize pubic lice but men (at the time) preferred bush and thus, the merkin was born.