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TIL a NASA scientist invented the Super Soaker

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OPEg TIL prostitutes in Brazil are enrolling in free English classes so they can provide better service for tourists during the World Cup
GYGkN TIL that Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was born with strabismus (crossed eyes). When her husband became president, she considered getting them surgically corrected, but he told her "Did I not see you and fall in love with you with these same eyes? I like them just as they are."
o8gE TIL a statue in France has been retrofitted with a detachable penis because people kept stealing the regular one. Authorities store the penis for safekeeping and reattach it for special events.
Yp987 TIL A recent development in Hoarding Disorder is the hoarding of data. This is where someone stores huge amounts of electronic data and emails that they're extremely reluctant to delete.
VB1o0 TIL in 2020 scientists discovered a new organ in the human throat, a previously unknown pair of salivary glands called the "tubarial salivary glands".