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TIL that squirting is MOSTLY just urine. A 2015 study found that all their participants showed noticeable bladder filling before squirting through ultrasonographic bladder monitoring, and then demonstrated that their bladders were emptied post-squirting.

mxG1p TIL in 1965. 6 boys from a catholic school were shipwrecked on a deserted island named 'Ata after a storm took their stolen boat out to sea for 8 days. They found the ruins of Kolomaile, a 19th century village in a volcanic crater, surviving off feral chickens, wild taro and banana for 15 months,
REPQ TIL that there’s an hourglass in Budapest that takes a full year to run out. It takes four people almost an hour to turn it.
dDaZ8 TIL: There is 12,000 year old rock art in the middle of the Sahara Desert, created by humans when the Sahara was still green and full of life. Some historians believe the human experience of watching the Sahara dry up still exists today as the story of the Garden of Eden
0d5Vy TIL that the island of Tristan de Cunha is the southernmost inhabited British overseas territory but was originally deemed, in 1793, as not being suitable for habitation let alone as a proposed penal colony.
e0ER4 TIL the idea for a military Command Information Center ("CIC"), was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E. E."Doc" Smith in a surge of refitting and retraining during 1943 after the battle of the Coral Sea through the Solomon Islands