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TIL Your period can come out of your belly button.

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b9WQ7 TIL The second person to survive going over Niagra falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, later died after slipping on an orange peel
9YoR7 TIL the dark meaning of This Little Piggy. “Went to market” (the meat market), “stayed home” (not ready for market), “ate roast beef” (fattening for market), “had none” (too young for fattening)
Ooloa TIL that not all toasters use the numbers on the dial to determine toastiness.
KOaPB TIL The first tent erected at the South Pole by the Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen on its arrival on 14 December 1911 is still there, buried beneath 17 meters of snow.
WZYB TIL the word boycott derived from Charles Boycott, an agent who collected rent from Irish farms on behalf of the British. Farmers demanded rent reductions, Boycott refused and evicted those tenants. Rather than attack Boycott the Irish farmers refused to do business with him at all. Boycotting.