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TIL that dentists & dental hygienists can tell if you’ve given a blowjob relatively recently, because it causes unique soft palate damage

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a8gDJ TIL that domestic cats kill 1.3 - 4.0 billion birds and 6.3 - 22.3 billion mammals annually in the United States.
yQPLX TIL the difference between the black and white rhino has nothing to do with color. The black rhino has a narrower mouth while the white, or “wide” rhino has a wider mouth better for grass eating. White Rhino came from Wide Rhino as an error in translation from South African Dutch “Wijd Rhino”
9Y1nG TIL: Parts of the Uplistsikhe cave-town hewn into the rocks of central Georgia date back to 1,000 BC. Archaeologists think the underground complex was still being lived-in in the 1400s. (Georgia the country, not the state)
DydP TIL that in the early days of typewriters, Mark Twain stopped using one for letters because of the number of questions he would receive about the machine in response to said letter.
4kedJ TIL the writer of 'Crime and Punishment', Dostoevsky, was sentenced to death by firing squad for political reasons. Moments before he was to be shot, a cart delivered a letter from the Tsar commuting the sentence to four years of exile in Siberia