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TIL that girls who grow up with a stepfather begin menstruating about 1 year earlier than those who grow up with their biological father

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Lk8yQ TIL Pigs will eat every part of the human body (including bones) and, if left alone with it for long enough, will fully consume the body.
jZgp TIL: If the sun was scaled to the size of basketball; Mercury would be the size of a grain of sand-33 feet away, Earth would be the size of a BB shot-86 feet away, Jupiter would be the size of a gumball-445 feet away, and the nearest star would be another basketball-5000 miles away!
814 TIL that the largest confirmed set of natural breasts belong to a woman who goes by “Norma Stitz”. She has done adult films and her bra size is 102ZZZ.
wLQK6 TIL The gas bags inside hydrogen airships of the 1930s were made from the outer layer of a cow’s intestines. Joined together when wet, the living tissues grow together, creating an impermeable bond. The gas bags of the Graf Zeppelin were made from the guts of around half a million cows.
oBODK TIL most utility poles are buried 6 feet deep. In fact, utility poles are buried according to a specific formula: 10% of the pole’s height plus two feet equals the appropriate depth of burial. A standard utility pole measures 40 feet, so a standard hole will go about 6 feet down into the ground.