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TIL old homes in Vermont have diagonal windows called Witch windows, meant to stop witches from flying in on their broomsticks.

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J1yvl TIL about ‘Phantom Penis’: Around 60% of men who have undergone penile amputation for cancer report sensations in the absent area, including phantom erections and tingling.
XEOVj TIL in 1964, a bristlecone pine was killed after a graduate research student accidentally got his tree core stuck in it's trunk. The tree was cut down to retrieve the core only to find out it was the oldest known living organism known at that time. It was estimated to be over 5,000 years old.
0dZv5 TIL that Vernors, the oldest ginger soda in the U.S., is aged in wooden barrels for 3 years and is considered medicine by many Michigan natives.
R54r6 TIL that we don't write in image-describing hieroglyps, but with sound-describing letters, because egyptians required a written language which all their less educated slaves could still master.
kOG9W TIL one of the reasons American bullfrogs are so dangerous as invasive species is cannibalism. Adult bullfrogs can subsist entirely off tadpoles and younger frogs (which eat algae and insects), and that reliable food source lets adult populations grow beyond what's normally possible in an ecosystem