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TIL that alleles have a big impact on your sexuality

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PYDKV TIL rock paper scissors is a game that goes back 2000 years to ancient Han China. The game spread throughout Asia with various characters, often animals, replacing the desk supplies we know today. In a version, a village chief is beaten by a fox, who is beaten by a hunter, who is beaten by the chief
LkgV0 TIL that the Russian space agency decided to turn an old space suit into a satellite. The result looked like an astronaut stranded in outer space.
EvkX TIL that despite strong intolerance of gays, Pakistan leads in world for gay porn searches
w4g1 TIL in 1907 Lawrence Luellen, a Boston lawyer, was concerned about the spread of germs due to people sharing glasses and dippers in public drinking spaces. He invented the first paper cup, dubbed the Klean Cup. 5 years later he renamed it after a popular line of toys: Dixie Dolls. Thus, Dixie Cups.
XQW6 TIL: At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known as the driest place on Earth. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded, at least as long as humans have measured it