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TIL gunshot wounds to the genitalia account for up to 5% of all military traumas

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68dm TIL the organ seen in the ballroom on the original Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is actual organ played by Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
oB8NL TIL in 1935 Germany sent Nazi lawyers to America to study Jim Crows laws to learn how to legally discriminate against and disenfranchise its Jewish citizens.
JYRgQ TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
jRxv TIL Disney world doesn’t use correct/current American Flags, so they do not need to be taken down or lit up at night.
4X1aw TIL about Andy Hartley Payne, who was the winner of the International Trans-Continental Footrace in 1928 to promote U.S. Route 66. He ran the 3,423.5 mi route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds over an 84-day staged run.