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TIL Rapper Akon has brought solar electricity to over 1 million Africans, and counting

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wokm7 TIL Ancient Roman texts describe a tell for pathicus - a derogatory term that describes the passive man in same-sex acts. When a man scratches his head with only one finger, that was the tell of a pathicus because he was careful not to disturb is hairdo.
NNYP TIL Darth Vader’s name was changed in Italy because Vader sounds like toilet bowel in italian
AD0Zd TIL approximately 230 children were born around 1980-1999 by collecting sperm from ‘genius donors’ (like Nobel prize winners) in a eugenetic attempt to breed entire generations of geniuses.
VBMg4 TIL that sirens are designed to trigger fear circuits in the brain.
Oowg7 “An untrained person has around five litres of blood, typically around 50 - 75ml per kilo — five to seven per cent — of body mass. A world-class endurance athlete can have two or three litres more in total, and as much as 150ml per kilo — 15 per cent — of body mass."