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TIL humans use 100% of their brains and it's only a myth that we're using a smaller percent.

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xVpR5 TIL female fruit bats give their partners oral during sex, to make it last longer. The male is also capable of licking it's own penis
BrVKe TIL that in Star Trek, Captain Kirk's phrase "You have the conn" has its origins in early battleships dating as far back as the 1860s; these ships were built with conning towers. A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine from which an officer in charge can issue commands.
bGW9 TIL that while on a visit to Poland, President Carter tried to tell the Polish people “I wish to learn your opinions and understand your desires for the future.” Instead, what he said translated to “I desire Poles carnally.”
Q1nL TIL: The Origin Of “Piss Poor” was that urine was used to tan animal skins so family’s would pee in a pot and sell it to the tannery. “Don’t have a pot to piss in” were the extremely poor who couldn’t even afford a piss pot for the tannery.
yQNRp TIL That a mountaineer found a wallet in the Andes mountain range that belonged to passenger of the plane crash in 1972. Realising the owner had survived, the mountaineer returned in wallet to him in 2005, more than 30 years later.