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TIL that skin bleach is used for scars and not just buttholes

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wLV1M TIL that the place were Julius Caeser is believed to have been killed is today a cat sanctuary
16y1P TIL that SOS is a reverse acronym (a backronym). It is a distinctive and easy way to remember the morse code distress signal of three dots, three dashes, three dots. Only after its implementation did the mnemonic phrase such as "Save Our Souls come into use
vwmL TIL The United States of America has nuked inside it’s own borders at least 988 times. That’s only slightly less than the number of nuclear weapon tests conduct by the rest of the world combined at ~1,011.
grn18 TIL about the Insectothopter, a robotic spy drone developed by the CIA in the 1970s that was the size of a dragonfly.
P1aRV TIL in WWI 'Male' tanks had cannon and 'Female' tanks had machine guns.