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w04o TIL I learned Penn Jillette from Penn & Teller has a patented “hot-tub with a jet specially angled for a woman’s pleasure” called Jill-Jet.
7N8O TIL that over 90% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom and Europe with a diagnosis of Down syndrome are terminated.
DQDmD TIL that the color of earwax can indicate whether you have body odor. White earwax may mean you don’t have body-odor producing chemicals, while yellow earwax means you probably do
ywRl TIL of Ken Allen, an orangutan who became famous for escaping from his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo 3 times in the 1980’s. He would peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals and never acted aggressively. Other animals even followed his lead and began escaping, too.
wLkeY TIL that WWII ended 5 weeks before a planned Japanese biological attack on San Diego involving plague infected fleas. The idea was developed at Unit 731 which conducted extensive human experimentation, mostly on Chinese prisoners.