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TIL Your left boob is usually bigger than the right because of it’s close proximity to the heart.

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78Z5X TIL the white gooey meat inside the coconut is called the endosperm
M7YNa TIL nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, are often visible in polar regions during winter. These rare clouds form at high altitudes in the stratosphere, about 15 - 25 km above the Earth, their stunning colors are caused by the diffraction of sunlight through tiny ice crystals.
lJX1 TIL during the Cold War, President Nixon devised a strategy to make the USSR think he was crazy and capable of launching nukes at any moment. It was called the “Madman Theory”.
KO47E TIL there is a museum in Austin, MN dedicated to Spam, and it tells the history of Hormel company, the origins of the canned product, and its place in world culture. The Spam Museum is free of charge, and the volunteer guides, known as Spambassadors, offer visitors tours and free Spamples to savor.
ANWM7 TIL that in 1684 Henry Morgan the "privateer" successfully sued the publishers of the books on piracy in the Caribbean for libel; as a result, the description of Morgan using nuns and monks as human shields were purged from subsequent British editions of "History of the Buccaneers of America"