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TIL Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hated each other. A Yankees clubhouse attendant speaking about the two of them once said: "Gehrig was a true hero, Ruth never flushed the toilet"

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pY69Q Today I Learned that your fingernails and toenails can grow at different speeds depending on which hand is your dominant hand, and a whole bunch of other factors.
EgKvp TIL a survey found that 46% of men were either very confident (20%) or somewhat confident (26%) that they could land a passenger plane by themselves in an emergency situation, as long as they could talk to air traffic control. Only 20% of women felt the same (7% very confident, 13% somewhat).
Bry0D TIL a hypnic jerk is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person (not only me apparently) is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment
JYpAV TIL about the Banach–Tarski Paradox where mathematically it is possible to split an object in to multiple parts and recombine them into two exact copies of the original without adding new material.
vPBgB TIL that in just 20 months ( three campaigning seasons), the Roman Republic lost one-fifth (150.000) of the entire male population of citizens over 17 years of age during the Second Punic Wars (218 - 201 BC)