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TIL the proper term for the whole of the external female genital parts is called the vulva, while vagina refers to the internal canal

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Z8X7G TIL that Dimebag Darrel, former lead guitarist of Pantera, asked Eddie Van Halen if he could have a copy of the "Bumblebee" that appears on the back cover of Van Halen II. Eddie said yes, but never got around to it. After hearing the news of Dimebag's death, he had the original buried with Darrel.
5YyLP TIL The Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan offers a driver's training class to teach people of any age to learn how to drive a Ford Model T built between 1908 and 1927
mWnO TIL In 1777, Morocco was the first country in the world to formally acknowledge the United States as an independent nation.
yVJp TIL Lewis and Clark carried an air powered rifle with them, powerful enough to kill a deer and impress Native Americans.
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen