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TIL: It's possible for a woman to menstruate through their bellybutton (umbilical endometriosis)

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KYy4B TIL Ken Smith lived as a hermit in the Scottish Highlands. After 40 years of isolation he travelled to Glasgow to attend the premier of a film made about his life as a hermit.
aaPA TIL That if you receive public funding for construction in Philadelphia, you have to dedicate a percentage to public space or art. It’s in part why Philadelphia has the most murals in the world.
xVL81 TIL Owls don't have eyeballs. The eyes are long and shaped more like a tube. Owl eyes can't turn in their sockets because of this shape.
b6yL7 TIL that deaf children have great difficulty learning to read; and high school seniors are likely to read at the level of a nine-year old.
4kLXa TIL: During the peak of the Vietnam war the Củ Chi tunnels linked Viet Cong support bases over a distance of 250 kilometers (155 miles), from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border.