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TIL that "Texas" is slang for "crazy" in Norway.

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R7E54 TIL of Eleanor Jones, a librarian, who in 1916 created a chaperoned dormitory after noticing groups of vulnerable young women in search of Hollywood stardom were congregating in her library with no place to go. The Hollywood Studio Club eventually housed over 10,000 women - including Marilyn Monroe.
ZXXa TIL that mosquitoes are the single largest human killers. Second only to humans.
vP5Rj TIL that the oldest penis graffiti/carvings was found on the limestone cliffs of a remote Greek island of Astypalaia. The graffiti also includes the phrase "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona."
xVJkb TIL that "were" and "wer" are archaic terms for adult male humans and were often used for alliteration with wife as "were and wife" in Germanic-speaking cultures, and in the Old English construction "werman".
Bg1BL TIL about Christopher Duntsch aka “Dr. Death” a Texas neurosurgeon who performed 38 operations in two years resulting in 2 deaths and 31 severely injured patients