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TIL a group of vultures around a carcass is called a “wake”.

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R5rv9 Today I learned that Cardi B's real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar Cephus
akQ9 TIL that from 1946 to 1948, nearly 700 Guatemalans were deliberately infected by American doctors to study the effects of venereal disease. The US didn’t formally acknowledge the study or apologize till 2010.
R7Oe4 TIL the words "female" and "male" are etymologically unrelated. "Male" is derived indirectly from the Latin "masculus" meaning masculine, and "female" is derived from the Medieval Latin "femella".
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