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TIL the US has the third lowest average commute time in the OECD, with only Finland and Sweden being lower.

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xVgdb TIL Polyorchidism is an extremely rare medical condition in which a person develops 3 or more testicles. In Type A, the additional testicle function normally while in Type B they do not. Normally there are no symptoms and do not require medical treatment.
ZrE4 TIL The HTTP status code for “Unavailable for legal reasons” is 451, in honor of Fahrenheit 451
rRM11 TIL that the state of Idaho once dropped beavers in the wilderness on parachutes.
x6Nkw TIL that brothers Alfonso and Gonzalo, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria through their mother, Victoria Eugenie, died in almost exactly the same way—a car crash that led to fatal internal bleeding—almost exactly four years apart. They both had hemophilia, a genetic condition.
BR8K TIL that Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears contain a chemical, Lycasin, that causes people consuming them to have “gastric symptoms” (i.e., you shit your brains out after eating them)