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TIL Gonads are an actual medical term

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awkYb TIL "Irish goodbye" refers to a person ducking out of a party, social gathering or very bad date without bidding farewell. The phrase is attributed to the Potato Famine of 1845-1852, when many Irish fled their homeland for America. The distance and technology meant that they were gone forever.
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.
wLaVW TIL All the McBain clips in The Simpsons make a short McBain Movie when you play then back to back.
R74Va TIL the most famous sound effect from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry -- Tom's leather-lunged scream -- was created by recording Hanna's scream and eliminating the beginning and ending of the recording, leaving only the strongest part of the scream on the soundtrack.
LkJA9 TIL African elephants often bury dead or sleeping humans or aid them when they are hurt. One woman fell asleep under a tree and woke to find an elephant standing over her gently touching her. As other elephants arrived they buried her under branches. She was found the next morning unharmed.