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TIL Selena Gomez named her kidney “Fred” after Fred Armisen who created and starred in her favorite show, Portlandia. Gomez received a kidney transplant from her friend, Francia Raisa, back in 2017.

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grXm9 TIL that the Kurdish people are the largest ethnic group (35-45 million!) without a homeland of their own. Britain and France had planned to give the Kurds their own independent state until the founder of the Republic of Turkey forced them to renegotiate.
4kala TIL Humans have the largest penis-to-body-mass ratio among primates & it has over 40 muscles and 4,000 nerve endings, making it highly sensitive.It has a unique "reflex" that allows it to become erect without conscious thought.
1aQYO TIL when US-born giant panda twins arrived in China, they struggled with local food and language. Mei Lun & Mei Huan were confused by "have you eaten up" in Chinese but responded to English "come here". They preferred "Western fast food" biscuits instead of local "wowotou" (steamed corn bread).
mMRO TIL: “that we now have 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees”
yVZAM TIL The Patriotic War of 1812 between Russia and France started just 6 days after, and completely independently, of The War of 1812 between the US and the UK