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TIL flipping a coin isn’t 50/50.

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VBVZZ TIL that a comet smells like rotten eggs, urine, burning matches and almonds. Traces of hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, sulphur dioxide and hydrogen cyanide were all found in the makeup of the comet 67P/Churyumove-Gerasimenko. Promotional postcards were even commissioned in 2016 carrying the scent of it
low5V Til about Jim Gordon, a famous drummer who played for many popular bands in the 70s and is now in prison after he murdered his mother during an episode of undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Wk9GB TIL In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote only twice of “survival of the fittest” but 95 times about love , 92 times about moral sensitivity, and 200 times about mind and brain!
a8B79 TIL that squirting is MOSTLY just urine. A 2015 study found that all their participants showed noticeable bladder filling before squirting through ultrasonographic bladder monitoring, and then demonstrated that their bladders were emptied post-squirting.
R59E8 TIL During the Napoleonic Wars French cavalry developed a technique called Sabrage, which is opening a champagne bottle with a saber. The wielder slides the saber along the body seam of the bottle to the lip to break the top of the neck away.