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TIL for every bag of Sugar Daddies, Sugar Babies and Junior Mints you eat, you're helping fight the war against Communism and the New World Order

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MoNV TIL That an extinct species of penguins were 2.0M tall and weighed 115Kg!
l78d1 TIL: A rattlesnake's rattle doesn’t work like a maraca, with little bits shaking inside. The rattle is actually a bunch of loosely interlocking segments made out of keratin.
6EMoY TIL that pregnancy tests actually existed 3,500 years in Ancient Egypt! It even predicted the gender! Women would urinate on two bags; one filled with wheat and the other barley. If they grew, it means they're pregnant! If the wheat grew faster it's a girl. If the barley did, then it's a boy.
PAoE TIL that male survivors of Ebola Virus Disease can harbor active virus in their sperm, and transmit the disease sexually months after their own recovery.
mxyay TIL the word "America" is a latinized version of Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who voyaged to the "new world" and published two popular booklets in Europe about the new continent. This inspired cartographer Martin Waldseemüller to label the new land after him on his maps, creating the trend.