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TIL only 8% of the outdoor statues of people in the US are of women

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76gr TIL that the city of Pompeii was covered in graffiti, including one case saying “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”
0wLdv TIL that the Russians succesfully developed a Plasma STEALTH cloacking device, but it had the limited purpose of screening the combat planes radar antenna, which happens to be a strong radar reflector.
nWlPd TIL that a male cocaine addict who fathers a son passes on genetic adaptations that reduce or prevent susceptibility to cocaine addiction in that son. It doesn’t work for daughters, though.
0w9n1 TIL some potato chips are green because a section of a potato can break through the ground and start growing chloroplasts. Most of the time these green potatoes are separated from production due to solanine, a natural poison that can be produced from a green potato.
QN4OL TIL Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was founded in 1983 over a poker game.