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TIL Your taste buds have a lifespan đź‘… Each of your taste buds lives for about 10 days

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lnZr TIL Oral sex was illegal in Canada… Until 1969
woVpP TIL about the 1936 presidential election in which Roosevelt received 98.49% of the electoral vote total, which remains the highest percentage of the electoral vote won by any candidate since 1820.
wLoZo The numbers tell the story: Of the 648 people killed by lightning in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male. And as much as we were hoping to uncover a biological cause—extra iron in the male cranium, perhaps, or the conductive properties of testosterone—it turns out men are... just kind of stupid. “Men take more risks in lightning storms,” says John Jensenius, a lightning safety expert with the National Weather Service.
b6p7E TIL that the term "rooster" for a male chicken was introduced in the 18th century specifically as a euphemism to avoid the sexual connotation of the the original term "cock."
6Ex8Q TIL that YouTube was created because co-creator Jawed Karim couldn’t easily find a place to view a clip of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime breast incident online