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TIL in the late 1990s, certain digital cameras used 3.5-inch floppy disks for picture storage

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XE178 TIL there's a biblical theory that the Adam and Eve narrative didn't involve Adam losing a rib but a Baculum (penis bone). Humans are the only Primate without one. Alternative scholars suggest that the use of the word rib was meant to be a euphemism.
D1lEp TIL of the sea pangolin, a deep-sea snail that lives in hydrothermal vents 1.5 miles underwater with crushing pressures and temperatures up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit. To survive, it has an outer armoured shell made of iron sulfide - the only known extant animal to have this property.
MenW8 TIL that potatoes were actually originally cultivated in peru
jLQE TIL that it is totally legal in New York for a woman to go topless, but only if it’s not used for business purposes.
a84P0 TIL About Belphegor's Prime