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TIL a strong erection is roughly 78% blood by volume but uses less than 3% of the body’s total blood volume at any given time.

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xVMw7 TIL in 2013 a Toyota Auris Hybrid was the first car in decades of testing to complete the Auto Motor und Sport 100k km long term reliability test without any defects outside normal wear items.
Xdxk TIL that in 1795, Napoleon offered a prize to anyone who could invent a way to preserve food and make it portable. A Parisian confectioner spent 15 years experimenting and won the prize.
KOXyB TIL: In Costa Rica, a sea turtle conservation organization is exposing sea turtle egg poachers by placing fake sea turtle eggs on the beach, with GPS trackers imbedded inside the eggs to reveal the location of whoever takes them.
LQVB9 TIL The UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century.
AxP7 TIL The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States from 5 states during the civil war used the word slave or a variant over 80 times. It also referred to the north as “non-slave-holding States”.