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TIL Olympic swimming is only timed to hundredths of a second because the pools aren’t built to the millimeter tolerances necessary to measure thousandths of a second

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oRoOY TIL the proper term for the whole of the external female genital parts is called the vulva, while vagina refers to the internal canal
kA61 TIL dying is illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway because the town’s small graveyard stopped accepting bodies after discovering the permafrost prevented the bodies from decomposing.
QRrp TIL- Corn Nuts released a radio commercial in the early nineties with the tagline “Bust a nut!”. The ad was promptly pulled from many radio stations
Y768r TIL research scientists created a system to allow goldfish to drive a fish tank using cameras to track the fish bumping into walls to navigate towards a colored target for a reward. They changed starting positions and added decoys to prove the fish were navigating the environment not just memorizing
4MZ5 TIL that in his second book written in 1928 , Hitler ranked the U.S. as the MOST dangerous potential enemy. He saw majority of Americans as “Aryans” ruled by Jewish plutocracy; he saw UK as potential ally, Russians “incapable of intelligent thought” and France rapidly “Negroizing” itself