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TIL that in 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909.

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awXQb TIL that men produce a higher percentage of motile sperm in their ejaculates after viewing sexually explicit images of two men and one woman (a sperm competition risk) than after viewing sexually explicit images of three women, likely indicating a response to an active risk of sperm competition.
OoLk1 TIL Police Woman, a 1974-1978 NBC TV show starring Angie Dickinson about a female cop caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States & was President Ford's favorite show, cancelling a press conference in order to avoid delaying an episode
QObM TIL there’s a number that is considered illegal. If you distribute or even possess this number, you can be prosecuted under the DMCA
Y790r TIL that "Liquid Ass" so realistically mimics the human colon that it's used by the US Military to train combat medics
l7Z07 TIL the most common state of matter in the universe isn't solid, liquid, or gas, but plasma