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TIL it is dangerous to blow air into a pregnant women's vagina. The increased air pressure can pass beneath the fetal membranes and into the circulation causing a venous air embolism that can kill within minutes.

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69V87 TIL that the flag commonly believed nowadays to be the official flag of Austria-Hungary was actually their civil ensign, only used by merchant ships and consulates. Austria-Hungary actually had no official flag, often flying the Austrian and Hungarian flags together instead.
gbRL TIL: Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair in order to correctly render Merida’s hair in “Brave”.
kbeg TIL of albino redwoods. Unlike most chlorophyll producing plants, albino variants of redwoods don’t die as long as they are attached to a non albino redwood that is able to support them. There are only around 61 known examples of such plants
av6o TIL ‘financial guru’ Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, filed for bankruptcy last year
1aM1D TIL A rare photo of Amelia Earhart shows her riding a scooter in the 1930s with a published caption reading, “In the near future, we are told, no one will walk at all."