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TIL: Almost one third of London men are too fat to see their own genitals.

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5VXpk TIL in 2020 Marvel unveiled a promo for a new comic book starring all-new Gen-Z superheroes with names such as Screentime, Snowflake and Safespace. After a considerable amount of backlash from fans, the project was evidently scrapped and never mentioned again.
MeKm8 TIL of Magnus Carlsen who played against 10 chess grandmasters simultaneously with his back turned to them while verbally being told each person's moves. He beat them all.
6EADm TIL that in the middle ages Christian priests would recite "hoc est corpus", meaning "this is the body", during mass when turning bread into the body of Christ. Since nobody spoke or understood Latin, this chant was garbled into "hocus pocus", which we still use when performing magic tricks today.
R5Vyw TIL Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third circulates it throughout the body. Their blood is blue due to a copper-based molecule, efficient in cold, low-oxygen environments.
5O6R TIL that sloppy Medical handwriting kills more than 7,000 people every year