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TIL Female Squid Wear Fake Testes to Avoid Male Advances

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ro80 TIL that the “slipping on a banana peel” trope originated in the late 1800s, when discarded banana peels were considered a serious public hazard
epDwn TIL the Hindi/Sanskrit word that Ancient Indians (~5000 BCE) used and still use for "Study of Geography" and it is "Bhoo-Gol", literally "Bhoo" = Land or Earth and "Gol/Gola" = Round
PYoPn TIL In stocks, being "short" a stock means you have sold a borrowed share, in hopes that it gets cheaper. You owe a share back, but you are "short" it until you buy it back to return to the lender.
jNJBX TIL that between the 1940s and 1970s several Ivy League schools, including Harvard and Yale, took mandatory nude photographs of all freshman students
X0DPR TIL that Samsung made a robot butt to test their phones durability.