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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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bNvj TIL Warren Buffet said, “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”
egab TIL that after Boromir had a dream urging him to seek Rivendell to the north, it took him a hundred and ten days to arrive, just barely making it in time for Elrond’s council. Tolkien wrote that the “courage and hardihood required was not fully recognized by the narrative”.
bdej TIL the Hobbiton movie set used for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was originally built to last temporarily for filming, but the landowner saw money in offering guided tours of the Shire to the public and so requested that the structures were made permanent. It’s now a busy tourist attraction.
YrbP TIL that someone built a Ferrari dragster that has a train supercharger.
ANmaw TIL The Glencree German War Cemetery (German: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Glencree) is located in the valley of Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland.The cemetery was dedicated on 9 July 1961. There are 134 graves. Most are Luftwaffe (air force),or Kriegsmarine (navy) personnel.