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TIL that the shape of a person’s corpus callosum reflects their mental rather than physical sex (i.e. someone with male genitalia at birth who identifies as female will have a female shaped corpus callosum)

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a8YMM TIL the French car Renault 5 was marketed in the United States by the name Le Car.
78PpP TIL in the Canary Island shepherds whistle while they work,and their brain process it as language. It’s called Silvo Gomero.
Oo6Ze TIL China Runs A High Speed Train From Beijing, China to Lhasa, Tibet, about 1272 miles away, and passes through the highest elevation attained by any train in the world (16,600ft) requiring oxygen to be pumped into the specially built passenger cabins and with a doctor onboard every train
b6Woa TIL candles made out of iron and sodium chlorate produce oxygen on submarines by burning at 600°C/1,112°F. They're also used in space (on the ISS, Mir and Shuttles)
D1Eov TIL The FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth cult that didn’t even exist.Official investigation on ‘Church of the Hammer’ and their Yahoo group ‘GodHatesGoths', continued for over 2 years before they realized the entire thing was completely fake and intended to be a joke.