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TIL Humans have at least 9 senses, not 5

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KOBNR TIL that Robert Morris, namesake of Robert Morris University, engaged in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and personally owned several slaves.
yVxEe TIL that a Habsburg was Emperor of Mexico from 1864 until his execution in 1867. He refused a plan to attempt to escape partially because it would have required him to shave his beard.
woZYY TIL, in the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the SF Bay Area killing 33 and causing $280 million in damages.
wlr8 TIL that Gene Cernan promised his daughter that he’d write her initials on the moon. He did and they will be there for tens of thousands of years
4Xb96 TIL about Kunyaza, a sexual practice endemic to Rwanda which leads to female ejaculation 90% of the time and which is traditionally combined with another cultural practice: labia enlongation