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TIL Tug of War was once an Olympic sport

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VMB68 TIL of liquid ass. A spray invented and sold for practical jokes. It’s smell is so disgusting, it’s used to train combat medics and to prepare them for the horrible smells of disemboweled troops.
mY9Y TIL Shrimp is called an abomination 4 times more than homosexuality in the bible
M5WW TIL When hot water freezes faster than cold water, the effect is called “the Mpemba Effect”. It’s named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba who was originally ridiculed for bringing it up in class after noticing his warmer ice cream mix was freezing before the cooler batch
a849y TIL that a linguistic's research led by Seymour (2003) shows that, on average, English-native learners take 2 more years to learn to read (decode) the same words than groups of learners in another country learning to read in their language, say, Finnish, which has an easier & more systematic system.
grRoL TIL in most countries of the world, houseowners outnumber those who rent their homes. Germany and Switzerland are among the exceptions to this trend.