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TIL Germany has the highest number of men who sit down to pee in Europe and they are called Sitzpinklers

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N7Re6 TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
rnPW TIL that “inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx.
Nbwb TIL that a retired Major General suggested in 1935 that wars could be avoided by drafting the upper class before the rest.
mWVy TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German, its from Texas, named after the “German Chocolate” used in the cake, which is also not German.
JmwQ TIL at least one dead body is washed ashore somewhere along the River Thames in London every week.