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TIL in 2009 Elena Bodnar invented a brassiere with cups that can be separated and converted into two emergency face masks -- one for the wearer of the bra, and one to be given to a needy bystander

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LkMkQ TIL that Snapchat trolled Facebook on April Fool's day with a 'Facebook' filter, designed to recreate Russian bots on Facebook deployed during 2016 US Presidential election. The filter placed a Facebook UI around the photo with Cyrillic script-like text and showed likes from “your mum” and “a bot”.
W7JlA TIL that male ducks grow new penises each year during the mating season. Their penis size is influenced by social environment. In research studies, the ducks housed in co-ed environment grew longer penises than those housed in pairs, likely because the ducks in groups were competing for mates.
eaWk TIL that English has different words for animals and their meats (i.e. cow/beef) due to the Norman conquest of England. The ruling Normans continued using French words to refer to the meat served to them by peasants – who continued using English words to refer to the animals they dealt with.
8a6kL TIL American Gothic depicts a farmer and his daughter not his wife.
ZpWdp TIL John Paul Jones, famous naval officer of the American Revolutionary War, was born in Arbigland, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, and fled the country to avoid arrest after killing a mutinous subordinate. He later killed another mutinous crew member in Tobago, and 18 months later, was in Virginia.