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TIL 99% of women and 95% of men talk to their pets (and 93% of women/87% of men think their pets communicate back).

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16o5W TIL that the defunct semi-pro Canadian Women's Hockey League had two teams in Shenzhen, China for 2 seasons, forcing the Canadian teams to fly 7000 miles there for road games once a season
X0E5P TIL: stereotypes about "stupid, lazy Southerners" in the US were caused by centuries of hookworm infection which causes lethargy, anemia and iron deficiency. These, in turn, negatively affect growth and intellectual development in children.
b91nZ TIL that the first internal combustion engine was designed in 1661, and would use gunpowder to drive the pistons!
d8NDE TIL of Paul Erdős, a Hungarian mathematician who had a lifestyle of living out of a suitcase and traveling as a lecturer.
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.