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TIL Lesbians are 91% more likely to be left-handed than heterosexual women

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69lK7 TIL Gene Siskel once scooped a story from Roger Ebert as Siskel was taking a nap under a conference table at the television station they worked at together, overhearing a telephone conversation Ebert was having with his editor at a rival newspaper.
69N5l TIL that the first time the U.S. flag was raised in victory on foreign soil was during the First Barbary War, when a group of Marines and mercenaries captured the Tripolitan city of Derna. The action is memorialized in a line of the Marines' Hymn: "the shores of Tripoli".
kO9nW TIL in 2019 an iconic piece of Flint graffiti was vandalized with another graffiti - a Grand Trunk Western Railroad bridge changed to read "Grand Funk Railroad" had graffiti painted over the "F" and one of the GFR band members' names painted there.
mMaO TIL despite rising sea levels, Finland’s geographic elevation is actually rising relative to the ocean
4XbMR TIL that there is no clear meaning behind the title of Umberto Eco's debut novel, "The Name of the Rose". Eco himself once stated that his intention was to find a "totally neutral title", and "because the rose is a symbolic figure so rich in meanings that by now it hardly has any meaning left".