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TIL King Charles is a descendant of the real life Dracula.
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TIL the reason that men’s testicles are not internal organs like female ovaries is because sperm cannot survive at our internal body temperature. They require a lower temperature which is why they hang down, but also why the scrotum shrivels up when it is too cold.
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TIL In the 1820s, the biggest department of the US Government, even outnumbering war personnel, was the Post Office.
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TIL that telling someone “this is going to hurt” and “this won’t hurt at all” has a physical impact on the brain which actually increases or decreases the pain you feel. (Study by Koyama et al 2005)
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TIL that Ritter Sport chocolate bars are called 'sport' because they fit in the inside pocket of sports jackets men wore to matches.
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TIL when Sophie Rutschmann of the University of Strasbourg discovered a mutated gene that causes an adult fruit fly to die within two days after it is infected with certain bacteria, she named the gene "Kenny" in honor of the South Park character, who dies in almost every early episode.