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TIL Studies have shown that smoking can actually shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter.

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kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
5nGr TIL Benjamin Franklin invented a musical instrument so popular that Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and Strauss all composed pieces specifically for it. It was also thought to drive people insane.
NXJL6 TIL that many lotions and cosmetic products contain gluten, but can still be considered gluten-free
Lk48V TIL the 1989 Beastie Boys album "Paul’s Boutique" was created before copyright law for sampling was well established and it would cost at least $20 million to clear the samples if it were released today
xVG1D TIL that the USSR used the phrase "And you are hanging Blacks" to criticize the hypocrisy of the US pointing fingers at Soviet human rights abuses while still perpetrating lynchings.