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TIL that approximately 1 in every 5-6 million boys are born with two penises

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yQE8e TIL that diamonds slowly turn into graphite (the stuff you find in pencils) over time. Thus, diamonds are not really forever.
QeRM TIL in 1990, Kerry Packer, the richest man in Australia, purchased defibrillators for every ambulance in New South Wales after his life was saved by an rescue crew that had one of the few defibrillators in the country.
QJnPL TIL of Sadi Carnot (father of thermodynamics) who replaced the previously long-lived idea that heat was a substance by the conception of heat as a quantitative property
BrdkL TIL that Jimi Hendrix’s national anthem performance at Woodstock was meant to be a protest to the Vietnam war. In the song he makes sounds that are supposed to symbolize bombs dropping and screams of people.
MyEW TIL that in 2010, the Iroquois National Lacrosse team (the only native american national sports team that is recognized by its sport’s international federation) was not allowed to play in the 2010 championships because the UK Government refused to recognize their Iroquois Nation Passports as valid