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TIL that Orchidometer is a medical instrument used to measure the volume of the testicles.

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0wXYp TIL I learned why we can “smell metals” when they don’t have a significant vapour pressure, sublimating etc. We smell the reaction of oils in our skin with the metal, producing detectable byproducts such as ketones, not the metal itself.
Kmx4 TIL of Valentina Vassilyeva, the Russian peasant who gave birth to 69 children by her husband Feodor. None were born solo, as she gave birth 27 different times - 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Feodor later had an additional 18 children with his second wife.
69NAl TIL about the Kentucky Meat Shower, where mysterious chucks of meat fell from the sky in 1876
E1YLX TIL in Norway, everyone's salary is public record and available online.
9WPX TIL Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs while as an aspiring chef because he was tired of “the rages the bullying and violence” perpetrated by the head chef