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TIL that the body has touch receptors inside the colon to let you know the difference between fart and poo.

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vd08 TIL we call the animal a cow because the herdsmen were English, but the meat beef because chefs were often French and beef is similar to the old French word for a cow. The same is true for pig/pork, and sheep/mutton.
NY16 TIL that, during a hostage crisis in 1985, Russian special forces took the kidnappers’ relatives as hostages, dismembered them and sent their body parts to the kidnappers as a negotiation/intimidation trick.
XAk6 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
xVk7D TIL there is a Japanese inn that opened in 718, that has been managed by 46 generations of the Houshi family. The inn has been operating for 1,300 years.
nen0P TIL the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) helped bring the first case of child abuse to court in 1874. At the time, there were laws against abusing animals but no laws against abusing human children.