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TIL that the male urethra produces a spiral stream of urine that has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus (Where the urine exits the body). The lack of an equivalent mechanism in the female urethra partly explains why urinary tract infections occur so much more frequently in females

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x6pPB TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te
XYkD TIL Considered some of the world’s smartest birds, crows operate with brains about 1/1000th the size of an adult human’s. They memorize and coordinate events over distances, they develop tools, and they teach their young lessons to pass down to future generations.
6EYKZ TIL Radio and TV stations don't have random letters assigned. The K prefix is for stations west of the Mississippi River, and the W prefix is for stations east of the Mississippi River. Military stations use the prefix N.
1a4v8 TIL hackers can steal data from your computer even if it’s not connected to the internet by causing the hard disk drive activity indicator LED to blink rapidly.
R4N8 TIL that in February 1991, 28 American soldiers died when a Patriot missile didn’t compute two floating point numbers correctly making it miss its intended target (a Scud missile) by 600 meters or 0.372822 miles