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

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M8Em TIL a guy in northern Bosnia had 5 meteorites hit his house in a year. So statistically unlikely that he claimed aliens were targeting his house. Scientists are now studying the area for magnetic anomaly.
BraWy TIL New York, London, and Paris have fake buildings on residential streets that hide subway vents and other infrastructure. These are essentially facades with no building behind them.
WKoA TIL That Nordic folklore has a Christmas character called “Perchta the Disemboweller”, who would either give you coins for being good or would slit your belly open and fill it with oats and straw if you had been bad.
69ea8 TIL about the Oyster Wars, a series of sometimes violent conflicts that lasted almost 100 years between the states of Maryland and Virginia against 'Oyster Pirates' who illegally dredged the Chesapeake Bay for oysters
Yejv TIL research studies have shown that sandwiches actually taste better when other people make them for you.