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TIL The clitoris is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. It has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis.

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VM8D8 TIL In 1740 a Swedish woman named Christina Johansdotter killed a friends infant in order to die herself as a result of execution for her crime. Bizarrely, killing children as a method of suicide was so problematic the government tried getting involved (tagged as NSFW just in case)
a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.
lojj1 TIL that while the United States Supreme Court hear only about 70 cases a year, the Indian Supreme Court hear up to 700 legal matters in a single day.
QJ1g9 TIL Xenon is such an expensive gas that when it's used for anaesthesia, recycling systems are used to recycle the used xenon for future use.
J1gxv TIL there's an actual duo named "Ebony and Ivory." Ruth Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick had both experienced a stroke in 1982, becoming partially disabled. They eventually met and began playing piano together, one hand each. Their story was named after the song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.