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TIL the old Scottish word for “clitoris” is “tickleygiblet”

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9VoB TIL that the urban legend of carrots giving night vision was invented as a cover-up by the British RAF in WWII. They were able to shoot down German planes at night using radar; rather than letting the enemy know about their technology, they claimed it was carrots that gave the gunners night vision
5YRkQ TIL Robert Pattinson was expelled from school when he was 12 for shoplifting explicit magazines and selling them later to his male classmates
ownL TIL India’s Dabbawalas deliver 200,000 meals a day, making one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries. FedEx and Harvard are studying their methods.
WkNmN TIL beekeepers are advised not to eat bananas due to their smell making bees agressive because it releases the same pheromones that alert bees to attack
ep9lD TIL 73 Years After he was abducted at the age of 6 years old in 1951, Luis Armando Albino reunited with his brother in 2024, after his niece took a DNA test, which lead to him being discovered.