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TIL male menstruation used to be a belief in some cultures where the Schistosoma parasites were endemic.

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gjx4 TIL There’s a Coke machine on Capitol Hill that has no permits, known owner or operator and yet has remained stock, sometimes with discontinued products, and functioning for years.
9Lnm TIL the expiration dates on water bottles is for the bottle and not for the water. The water doesn’t go bad but the bottle “expires” and starts leaching chemicals into the water.
EgZ8x TIL that baleen whales have two blowholes but toothed whales only have one.
NAKE TIL that there is no need to drink eight cups of water a day, because they “can be contained in food, alcohol or caffeinated beverages … adding the eight cups of water to everything else you drink will [not] do you any good and it could do you harm”.
oBvxE TIL: If you boil a can of sweetened condensed milk for 3 hours it turns into Caramel.