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TIL the first thing we develop in the womb is an anus. For the first few seconds of life we are floating anuses .

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R6El TIL Stephen Colbert founded a shell corporation in Delaware named Anonymous Shell Corporation so it could be given large donations to anonymously funnel into his Super PAC, he asked FMR. FEC Chairman Trevor Potter how it was different from money laundering. Potter’s response was “It’s hard to say.”
9YORB TIL a recent meme supposedly showing a soldier carrying a donkey through a minefield in World War II was actually taken in 1958 and has nothing to do with minefields.
d8nlj TIL the earliest known drinking straw dates back to 3000 BC to a Sumerian Tomb and was made out of gold. The Sumerians made straws to drink beer.
xVo9D TIL Elephants console one another when they are upset with gentle touches and trunk strokes. Previously, only humans, great apes and birds in the raven family were known to do this.
GMr4 TIL “Texas” means “crazy” in Norway