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TIL a snail's anus is above its head

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9wx7G TIL Victorian poet Robert Browning believed that a "twat" was an item of clothing worn by nuns, and included an infamous line about "cowls and twats" in one of his poems. He came to this conclusion after misinterpreting a vulgar rhyme which mentioned "old nuns' twats".
LkxnZ TIL during a 2000 celebrity edition episode of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", comedian Norm MacDonald made it to the million dollar question, but passed on it to not risk it. However, his anwer was right.
9YBbD TIL about the 'cyber seat', the world's first park bench with free internet. It was installed in the UK in 2001 by Microsoft. Within days, two teens had plugged their house phone into it, attempting to call Bill Gates to say 'we are calling you from your bench'. They managed to reach his secretary.
aBL9 TIL A Spanish judge has ruled that women can be charged more for driving lessons because “men were better drivers”
ZpPVQ TIL that contrary to popular belief, the Mesopotamian god Dagon has nothing to do with fish or the sea, and the portrayal of him as a fish god based entirely on the medieval belief that his name was derived from the Hebrew word for fish, "dāg", which was debunked in the 1920s