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TIL one in six Brits would have sex with a robot

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p8WjZ TIL that Mountain Dew’s original tag line was “Ya-hoo, Mountain Dew! It’ll tickle yore innards!”
4yk6 TIL many dinosaurs thought to be different species are really the same creatures at different distinct stages of development.
OoG7 TIL that an elderly woman’s uterus fell out of her, she then proceeded to push it back up inside her and lodged a potato to hold up it up, a few weeks later the potato sprouted inside her
XEAQP TIL Some bluebottle jellyfish sails are right-handed and some are left-handed, across the body, so when the wind comes up it only grabs the ones with the sail going the right way for that particular breeze. It's nature's way of making sure the population never becomes extinct.
XE7YE TIL while the term "shrapnel" has been generalized to refer to any fragments of bullets, shell casings, and bombs, the term originally referred to a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air, invented by Henry Shrapnel in the 18th century