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TIL the word vagina literally translates to “sheath” or “scabbard”

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JmZj TIL Garry Kasparov played versus the world at a game of chess online, where over 50,000 different people from more than 75 countries voted on the best move. Kasparov won when 51% of his enemies surrendered.
yQArX TIL: what it means to measure immortality (sometimes called "lifespan") of an electron, in experiment that failed to disprove immortality assumption, but has offered its minimum lifespan at 66,000 yottayears, which is more than five-quintillion times the current age of the Universe
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