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TIL Polynesians explored and accurately sailed the pacific thousands of years ago using their testicles.

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awApb TIL European PYREX is more resistant to breakage due to temperature change than USA PYREX because it is still made with the original borosilicate glass instead of soda glass (which can shatter in hot shards with sudden temp changes)
J1Wlj TIL Joan Crawford's last film before her death was a science fiction horror film called "Trog"
apWo TIL there is a German children’s book from 1845 about three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, Saint Nicolas dips the three boys in black ink, to make them even darker-skinned than the boy they’d teased.
l7e65 TIL The Ryanair Flight from Dublin to Amsterdam is number 420
Lkjr TIL John Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without any recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos.