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TIL that there is a medical tool that measures the volume of testicles.

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Rp57 TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript written by Archimedes that laid out the heart of Calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.
wL1D7 TIL that a the Netherlands supposedly declared war on the Isles of Scilly (off the southwestern coast of Cornwall, England) in 1651, and essentially forgot about it until a treaty was signed 335 years later, in 1986. Not a single shot was ever fired.
oRKNY TIL: The melody for the British national anthem "God Save the King" is also the national anthem of Liechtenstein and the royal anthem of Norway
QJO76 TIL that Doge was a title held by medieval Italian lords. Their office was called the dogeship and their wives were called dogaressas.
4Xo15 TIL that Ring Around the Rosie is a song about bubonic plague (black death) from England.. and it used be “and we all fall dead” but they omitted ‘dead’