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TIL the feminine companion word to phallic is yonic, meaning imagery evoking or in the shape of the vulva or vagina.

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OoxQR TIL descendants of Pablo Escobar's 4 pet hippopotami, aka "cocaine hippos" are an invasive species "rewilding" parts of the ecosystem. The hippos' diet & body size let them replay a role of similar extinct species like the giant llama, making northern Colombia more like the late Pleistocene Epoch.
YQNZ TIL that, including the Chernobyl disaster, Nuclear Power is responsible for 0.09 deaths per Terra-watt hour of electricity produced. Coal is responsible for 170 deaths/TWh
J1M0B TIL that the modern assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by Ransom E. Olds. Ford then took the idea and improved it.
QkKL TIL Dune the movie was initially set to star Salvador Dali, Orson Wells, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon and Mick Jagger with art by H.R. Giger, a soundtrack from Pink Floyd and David Jodorowski as director.It would have been 14 hours long.
grva9 TIL that in Medieval England all freemen were required by law to own weapons and armor based on their wealth. This ranged from a simple gambeson and iron cap for the poorest, to a mail shirt and helmet for the wealthiest.