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TIL That, while it is the most common position for nearly all animals, no one is quite sure why the sex position became referred to as "doggy style". In Latin it was known as "sexual intercourse in the manner of wild beasts" and in the Kama Sutra it is called "the cow position".

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jx9v TIL Lewis Carroll eventually did answer the Mad Hatter’s famous unanswered riddle, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” In an 1896 edition, he wrote, “Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!” [pg.71(5.)]
yOYa TIL In 1960, runner Harry Jerome broke the world record for 100 metre sprint, but it wasn’t counted because Canadian officials didn’t believe a Canadian could run that fast.
rNlZo TIL the Avianca airplane crash of 1990 was caused in part due to the pilots not declaring a fuel emergency to the aircraft controllers. They never actually use the word "emergency," so they flew around in holding patterns and eventually ran out of fuel
VMV8m TIL that the saying “put a sock in it” is believed to come from the early 20th century, when people would stuff socks into their gramophones (a device for recording, reproduction and sound), to make it quiet, because the gramophones did not have volume controls.
aw5OJ TIL that on January 2, 1911 revolutionary leader Pascual Orozco Jr. ambushed and killed a number of federal troops in service of the then-standing Díaz regime. He ordered the uniforms of the troops be stripped and mailed back to Díaz with a note saying: "Here are the wrappers, send me more tamales".