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TIL your rectum and anus—is lined by cells similar to those in your mouth, which is why spicy foods can burn just as much on the way out as on the way in

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x6beD TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.
V1Vk TIL that a Canadian university is offering a room full of puppies to help stressed-out students.
BBkD TIL a 1945 issue of IMPACT magazine showed what the firebombing of Japan would have looked like if equivalent American cities were bombed.
Ywwv TIL the “bagel” button on the toaster not only increases the time, but increases the heat of the inner elements, and decreases the heat of the outer elements.
M7XGm TIL the verb “to duck” existed before the name of the animal. Originally called an “ened” in Old English, the waterfowl was later referred to as a “duck” (or a “ducker”) because of how it would duck underwater for food.