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TIL pubic hair tends to match eyebrow colour

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JYmbV TIL The well-known phenomenon of "garlic breath" is allegedly alleviated by eating fresh parsley.
aww6L TIL that Yellowstone National Park contains 1/2 of the world's documented geothermal features and 2/3 of the world's geyers - beating both Iceland and Russia.
pYZa4 TIL that referencing the movie TOPGUN or its sequel while at training at the school incurs an immediate $5 fine for all personnel because it is seen as conflicting with the institute's atmosphere of professionalism.
PXAG TIL There is a film called Waterloo(1970) that used 15,000 real Soviet soldiers as extras who spent months learning Napoleonic formations and how to use a musket. It is also very faithful to actual history.
LkaWQ TIL of byssus fabric, or "sea silk" because it was made from the filaments of Mediterranean molluscs, gathered by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, who wove them into clothes that "when treated with lemon juice, turn a golden colour, which never fades."