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TIL all San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board-members are required to ride transit at least once a week

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pvxe TIL Penguins are not averse to a spot of gang rape, necrophilia, pedophilia and psychotic violence
VMDn4 TIL That the cremaster muscle is responsible for moving your testicles up or down. It expands and contracts according to temperature – moving them further from the body when it’s warm and closer to the body when it’s cold.
b6gpZ TIL the show the honeymooners was one of the first tv shows to depict married life as non idyllic and gritty
166ld TIL about the Baghdad Batteries. In 1938 twelve jars with copper cylinders and iron rods were found in Iraq. The jars when combined with grape juice produce approximately 1 volt of electricity. It is hypothesized these were the first batteries ever created, over two thousand years ago.
j6aVR TIL In medieval times the Byzantines used a giant chain to prevent enemy ships from crossing the Golden Horn, the natural estuary leading into Constantinople's harbor. Failing to break it, some invaders, including the ottomans in 1453, decided to carry their ships on land and circumvent it