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TIL ticks are arachnids, so they have 8 legs

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wXe7 TIL vaginas are called “beavers” because in the 17th century, prostitutes would wear hair pieces on their vaginas made of beaver hide
VBNy8 TIL the waving inflatable tube man was invented in 1996 for the Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, he was influenced by Caribbean Carnival celebrations
WAb9 TIL there no rats in Alberta. The province is rat-free and there is a program to keep it that way. Public education is directed toward identification of rats and rat signs. The discovery of a rat in Edmonton or Calgary receives full media coverage.
wokDM TIL: Ginggaew Lorsoungnern is a Thai woman who survived her first execution in 1979 because she had situs inversus, a condition where all of the body’s organs are reversed.
a89Z9 TIL about Phobos 1, a Soviet space probe launched to study Mars' moon. It shut down before ever reaching Mars because a technician left out a single hyphen in one of the keyed commands. All commands were supposed to be proofread by a computer before being transmitted, but the computer malfunctioned.