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TIL that "penile implants" exist and to get an erection with one you squeeze your nutsack. They're used for erectile dysfunction and FtM transitions

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6Elb8 TIL After the American Revolution, British peace commissioners were so humiliated by having to negotiate with colonials, that they refused to sit for a group portrait intended to commemorate the event. So there is just blank space on the right of the painting where they were to have been seated
R7xo7 TIL: In 2017 Dr. Thatcher Cardon received $15,000 from NASA for winning the Space Poop Challenge. His prototype removes the waste from the space suit completely so astronauts don't need to take off their notoriously heavy, cumbersome, and uncomfortable space suits before going to the toilet
b5mN TIL most playing cards are right-handed, a southpaw will have to fan theirs with their off hand. An ambidextrous deck will have numbers in all four corners, a lefty deck will have numbers in the upper right and lower left corners.
lNeA TIL George Lucas gave Mel Brooks his blessing to make Spaceballs on the condition that no action figures be made, as they could be confused with actual Star Wars toys.
PZEe TIL that MSG is generally accepted as harmless by the scientific community, with the negative stigma arising from a handful of anecdotal complaints in the 1960’s