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TIL that ceiling fans have a winter and summer mode.

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aDwA TIL The clitoris is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. It has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis.
ODMY TIL that while Alexander the Great conquered the known world, he never attempted to attack the city-state of Sparta.
0wkBL TIL about Picher, Oklahoma. A town that had to be abandoned after it was discovered that an old lead mine was poisoning the residents. The real nail in the coffin came when an F-4 tornado hit in 2008. Today, the town sits completely empty.
VBLB4 TIL about the atlantropa, a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that was devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s, and promoted by him until his death in 1952. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea.
b9LEE TIL Norilsk uprising of 1953 was the largest in the history of GULAG. There were up to 16,378 inmates on strike at the same time, 70 % of which were Ukrainians. It lasted for 69 days and is known as "Uprising of the Spirit"