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TIL there is a LARP party in Czechia, where you roleplay contemporary rural Americans

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Egyy7 TIL a 2013 study in the US, involving 138 women and 98 men aged 18-36 years old, found that only 38.4% of women and 20.4% of men were able to correctly identify the vagina on a diagram of the female anatomy.
DQBMV TIL that scientists discover an average of 18,000 new species of life every year.
BrwPL TIL on 1838, in order to pay off debts of Georgetown College, the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves from their plantations. The buyers were Louisiana sugarcane planters.
VM67D TIL Einstein held 6 different citizenships throughout his life due to changing regimes and residences. However, he was also stateless for 5 years from 1896–1901.
V1WQ TIL in Super Mario 64 a Shepherd Tone (a noise composed of sine waves that gives the illusion of constantly ascending or descending in pitch) was used in the soundtrack for the ‘endless staircase’ “to provide an unsettling feeling”