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TIL That Venus Flytraps are native to North Carolina

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5VJgP TIL there is a muscle in the forearm called the "pulmaris longus", which is missing in 2.5 to 26% of the population. It can be seen when flexing the wrist, then touching the pads of the thumb and little finger together.
loxnN TIL that “Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.
e8BL TIL the FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s. Gregory Scarpa kidnapped a klansman, put a gun in his mouth and forced him to reveal the spot where the three had been buried.
YKK7 TIL For the Romans, a big cock wasn’t a sign of manliness or sexual skill. All of the Roman heroes – mythological, political, or athletic – were portrayed as having small, compact genitalia, almost like pubescent boys. What we consider “well-endowed” was considered a sign of a barbarian or a fool.
kOLxd TIL that Switzerland does not have a capital by law, and it is in modest city of Bern, not Zürich, where the Parliament meets.