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TIL It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

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Dn0e Today I learned that in 1680, the time of the Puritans, an X-rated sex manual was sold in mainstream bookstores called “This Misterie of Fucking.” It promoted premarital sex and masturbation and contained crude etchings of different positions.
YplLx TIL that New Zealand's most decorated battalion in WW2 is the 28th, or the Māori Battalion. They were renowned for their fierce fighting spirit and extreme bravery, such that Rommel is even rumored to have said: "Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world".
Lkp1m TIL that Bill Gates' net worth is still 10x as much as Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne's estimated net worth is in the comics..
6ErOl TIL a comets tail always points away from the sun and has nothing to do with the way it is accelerating. This means that the comet can be going into its own tail.
rNYWM TIL the Moche civilization of Peru developed a batteryless electroplating technique during the first few centuries AD to deposit a thin layer of gold over copper