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TIL Human penis shaped like a mushroom is to scoop out or displace the prior male’s semen

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8aOdK TIL rather than using a mirror, some observatory telescopes were built to use a large, spinning pool of liquid metal as a reflecting surface
kga7 TIL when evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane was asked by some theologians what could be inferred about the mind of the Creator based on his scientific work, he responded “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”
l7vPK TIL Brazil found incarcerated populations read 9x as much as the general population. They made a new program for prisoners so each written book review took 4 days off a prison sentence.
Y7G9G TIL that contrary to expectations most free people of color lived not in the North but in the South, the Upper South specifically, prior to the American Civil War
KOOM4 TIL in 1851, Hong Xiuquan, claiming to be the brother of Jesus Christ, staged a rebellion and captured South China from the Qing dynasty