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TIL engineers have the 5th highest suicide rate of all professions, right after factory workers.

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yKV8 TIL “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper was a song about masturbation. Initially she wanted children to hear and be inspired to dance, but get the meaning when they were much older. In 1984 the album had a parental advisory label for content.
1lXr TIL: English Pirate/Privateer Sir Francis Drake captured Spanish galleon Cacafuego in 1579 with ease, by firing ‘Chain Shot’ (two cannonballs connected by a chain) at its mizzen mast, severing it completely.
4G9b TIL that black panthers are just the melanistic (opposite of albinism) color variant of leopards and jaguars and not an independent species
P9ge TIL Mr. Rogers made a legendary Emmy acceptance speech that shut everybody up & left people in tears
Ypxnv TIL female kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteruses. The two side vaginas carry sperm to each uterus, while the middle vagina sends the joey to the outside world. This can allow female kangaroos to be perpetually pregnant with one joey developing in her pouch and another in the other uterus.