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TIL Balls are different for men and women in pro tennis

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epKa4 TIL Johnny Tightlips from The Simpsons is a reference to Frank "Tight Lips" Gusenberg, who was shot down in the real life St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago and repeatedly replied, "Nobody shot me.", before dying at a local Chicago hospital.
6Wpw TIL there is a place in Iran known as the Valley of Genitalia, where statues representing female breasts and male genitals date from 1000ad to 70 years ago.
BgLgd TIL Mohammad is the most popular boys' name in Berlin, Germany.
d8jr7 TIL When Salvador Dali's body was exhumed 28 years after his death, his mustache was still perfectly intact.
KYL44 TIL about baby cages. The first commercial patent for a baby cage was filed in 1922 by Emma Read of Spokane, Washington.