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TIL that the moon has "moon-quakes" and because the moon has a smaller core than earth, this causes it to ring like a bell

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ewZ6 TIL that in Ancient Rome women would drink turpentine to make their urine smell sweet, like roses or violets.
nL1W TIL 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee Barry Goldwater was a supporter of gay rights and denounced the religious right after their rise in 1980’s
KeD4 TIL that during the embryo development 3 sets of kidneys develop, but only one set remains to become the permanent adult kidneys.
nW987 TIL Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead had a cameo in John Wayne Bobbitt’s pornographic film, where he finds Bobbitt’s severed penis and kicks it saying “Oh well, it’s not mine at least.”
XxDR TIL that in String Theory, the size of ‘Strings’ in a hydrogen molecule would be relative in size to the width of human hair to the Milky Way