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TIL that a glass ball will bounce higher than a rubber ball!

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XEARE TIL in addition to his famous sword, "Excalibur," King Arthur had a spear named "Ron."
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
4dL5 TIL there is something called “the small penis rule” that authors use to avoid libel lawsuits: if a character is described as having a small penis, no one will want to sue and say the character is based on them.
woJg1 TIL that the Republican platform largely is a result of forced desegregation
4k4JR TIL of Glacier Mice. Balls of moss that form on the surface of a glacier and move together, up to an inch at a time, like a herd of little mice.