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TIL about the Cremasteric Reflex which causes testicles to move around like they’re alive.

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9wg6 TIL - That the US still uses a mining law from 1872 that allows companies to extract mineral from government-owned land for 5 dollars an acre with no royalties
geK9 TIL in the 1980’s, a one letter typo cost the Yellow Pages $10 million when they misprinted a travel agency’s advertisement for ‘exotic vacations" as “erotic vacations”
Brmvy Today I learned that the running joke of Garry Gergich on the hit television show Parks and Recreation having his name constantly mistaken for Jerry is a reference to how the political term Gerrymandering (pronounced as Jerry-mandering) today mispronounces its intended namesake Gerry ("Gary").
GYeoN TIL: Less than half of India’s children between the age 6 and 14 go to school
ADKko TIL that the game WoW had virtual pandemic-like accident in which scientists actually tried to research people's reaction into epidemics.