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TIL In addition to being blind, Stevie Wonder temporarily lost his sense of smell and taste after a car crash in 1973

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494o TIL in 2012 only 60 NYPD officers discharged their weapons.(0.17%) Of the 26,091 weapons arrest, 26,000 were completed without an officer firing their weapon. The race stats of the officers who discharged weapons almost directly matches the racial makeup of the NYPD.
7WKM TIL that the Dutch have a word, “swaffelen,” or, as it was told to me, “zwaffelen,” for the act of smacking one’s penis repeatedly against an object.
5YXW8 TIL there is a gecko less than an inch long whose skin is completely hydrophobic. Without it's hydrophobic skin, because it's so Tiny, it could drown in a rainstorm. Instead it can float on open water.
epRQn TIL of Ymir, the grandfather of all Nordic gods who drank from a cosmic hornless cow rich in milk and gave birth to a male and female from his armpits. Odin, his grandson, would later kill him and fashion the world from his body.
v1jy7 TIL India’s “Go Air” airline only hires female flight attendants since they are lighter by weight, so they save up to $500,000 USD per year in fuel