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TIL that snapdragons (the plant you can squeeze to look like it's opening a tiny mouth) looks like skulls when it dries out.

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yVbje TIL about the merkin. It is a vaginal wig, originally donned by prostitutes starting in the 15th century. They shaved to minimize pubic lice but men (at the time) preferred bush and thus, the merkin was born.
4XXLR TIL that two of the longest wars ever fought in history (Reconquista and Iranian-Roman Wars), each took more than 700 years
geML TIL Belize was once ruled by a “snake dynasty.” A 1,300-year-old burial chamber holds the clues to a forgotten empire.
ErZw TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon’s marketing guy deliberately tricked a generation of hipsters into making PBR their ironic beer of choice.
yVPyv TIL that the American expression "boondocks" comes from the Tagalog word bundók (mountain)