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TIL that in 2020 the Smithsonian published an article claiming that things like individualism, planning for the future, avoiding conflict, and being polite were all aspects of "white culture"

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EKRd TIL that female kangaroos have three vaginas. The outside two are for sperm and lead to two uteruses. The middle one is for giving birth. The males have a two pronged penis, below the testicles.
0wmYN TIL "Typhoid Mary" vigorously protested her quarantine. When she was first captured in 1907, she fled over back fences and barricaded herself with barrels. Her second capture came after she hid in a friend’s home on Corona Avenue and was finally captured by means of a ladder to the second story.
KYA64 TIL early movie projectors utilized primitive arc lights which were very bright but had a tendency to flicker, especially if they were not properly maintained. It is because of this flickering that movies came to be called "flicks".
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VBogm TIL The exact origins of paper airplanes are lost in the mists of ancient early civilization, but evidence points to folded paper gliders being developed and refined concurrently in Ancient China and Japan sometime around 500 BC.