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TIL that a 2005 study found that men who were made to feel insecure about their manliness would overcompensate and were more likely to buy a big car, support the Iraq War and displayed homophobic attitudes.

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5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
bXEQ TIL the word “biweekly” can mean either “twice a week” or “twice a month” and has the potential to cause an epidemic of misunderstandings all across the english speaking world.
Q8Xk TIL that the Lord of the Rings novels were written as if they were translated to English, and the actual common tongue of the books is called Westron.
yVjop TIL about lazboard or petranboard, a wooden board used for skiing on snow in Petran Plateau of İkizdere district of Rize in Turkey. It is thought to have been used since the 1600s
BgZ7b TIL the Tres Hombres is the only trans-Atlantic sailing freighter without a motor which is based in the Netherlands