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TIL that 17 million telegrams are still sent every year. By comparison, over 200 billion e-mails are sent every day. They are most commonly sent to meet certain legal requirements or to express congratulations or condolences.

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7r66X TIL that after Hippocrates started going bald, he prescribed himself a topical concoction of opium, horseradish, pigeon droppings, beetroot, and spices. After noticing that eunuchs never went bald, he also prescribed castration to prevent hair loss - and researchers in 1995 proved that to be true
4Q1g TIL if a lamb dies, you can dress another lamb with its skin and the mother of the dead lamb will accept it.
yV50a TIL that scientists once believed mensurating women exert a "dangerous force" called menotoxin. While the term disappeared from the literature in the 1970s, the concept of menotoxin was never convincingly proven or disproven.
neOZ9 TIL that in countries, the suffix -stan generally means 'home of' in ancient Persian. An example would be that Afghanistan means 'Home of the Afghans.'
NnXb TIL that a popular stuffed polar bear, located at Science Museum of Minnesota, was killed after being beaten to death by vandals at a local zoo.