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TIL Cigarette Smoking Makes Your Penis Shrink

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BrlGb TIL, Sperm whales, the biggest toothed whale on Earth, dont actually have teeth in the top jaw. They instead have sockets in the upper jaw that the bottom teeth fit neatly in to.
kJxbB TIL that the US senate has only been directly elected since 1913.
VBg6k TIL Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer until Walt Disney's wife, Lillian, objected that the name was "sissified" and suggested Mickey.