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TIL spotted female hyenas have a pseudo-penis and lack an external vaginal opening

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vPQ5r TIL in 1992, about 70 youth members of the Eclaireurs de France, a French scouting association, descended on the Cave of Mayrières supérieure with steel brushes to clean up graffiti, erasing two 15,000-year-old cave paintings of bison before realizing what they were.
KRDQ TIL Snuffeupagus became a real character (instead of Big Bird’s imaginary friend) because of a string of high profile child sexual abuse cases. The writers didn’t want children to be afraid of telling their parents about being abused because of the fear of not being believed.
X0mEP TIL that Anogenital Distance (the length of one's taint, i.e. distance between junk and anus) is a thing that scientists have studied and a larger AGD ratios are linked with greater fertility.
JOeV TIL In June 1974, while President Nixon was on his way to a scheduled stop in Syria, Syrian fighter jets intercepted Air Force One to act as escorts. However, the Air Force One crew was not informed in advance and, as a result, took evasive action including a dive.
9n9B TIL that the 1964 war movie ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so historically inaccurate that President Dwight D. Eisenhower came out of retirement and held a press conference just to denounce the film.