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TIL during the first world war more American soldiers died of the Spanish flu than those who died of combat

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woyBo TIL Polaroid camera founder Edwin Land built up a company that did about $1.4 billion of business all over the world in 1979. He never diversified into other businesses, never sold out to another company, and never borrowed money on a long-term basis
M748b TIL that there are ethnic groups in the African Congo Basin that do not have a word for and are confused by the concept of masturbation.
0wmkL TIL When an unpredictable event like Covid-19 happens people hoard toilet paper because "because toilet paper has a longer shelf-life than many food items, is prominently featured in aisles and is big in size, we are psychologically drawn to purchasing it in times of crisis."
OlG1 TIL In 1838, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel about a shipwreck where three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker. In 1884, there was a real shipwreck, in which three survivors ate the fourth survivor, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
Rkr1 TIL There are 8000 nerve endings in the clitoris, dedicated almost exclusively to female pleasure. The penis only has 4000.