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TIL vaping is supposedly 95% less harmful than smoking cigarettes

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6E8EJ TIL ancient Greek and Roman male sculptures have such small penises because men with small penises were viewed as more intellectual, rational and authoritative. Also because all the statues were flaccid.
0dNwy TIL Australian Aboriginal oral traditions accurately describes postglacial sea-level rises dating from more than 7000 years ago. Some tribes can describe islands that no longer exist; and provide their original names.
l7Zj7 TIL that the biggest box office hit of 1987 was a Leonard Nimoy movie - not as Spock in a Star Trek film but as the director of Three Men and a Baby.
rV1x TIL in Saudi Arabia there is a “religious police” created to enforce Sharia law. In 2009, the they created and formalized a special “Anti-Witchcraft Unit” to “educate the public about the evils of sorcery”.
WkGXL TIL that many house pools do not get their water changed, instead, the water just got cleaned, which means it's the same water in the pool year after year...