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TIL Cigarette Smoking Makes Your Penis Shrink

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5n6Q TIL The largest helicopter ever built had a rotor diameter of 129ft (39.6m) and had jet engines in it’s blade tips.
GYd4g TIL that 1816 was a year without summer. Average global temperatures fell by around 1°C after Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, covering the skies around the world in volcanic ash.
5YLm9 TIL Harriet Tubman joined the Union army as a nurse, but also acted as a scout and spy behind enemy lines during the war. Despite her efforts and general fame, she was only able to acquire a nurse’s pension after the war ended.
R85Q TIL That Russia Has Approved Construction of an Estimated $66B Tunnel Across the Bering Strait Starting Sometime After 2030, Making a Railway from New York to London a Possibility During This Century
GYKb5 TIL The University of Wisconsin - Madison operates over half of the weather stations in Antarctica