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TIL of the 'skimmer' genus of birds - their outsize lower beaks are used for catching fish at the surface of water

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XEJpr TIL NASA changed their urine-collecting condom sizes from Small, Medium, Large, to Large, Gigantic, Humongous because male astronauts who were not well-endowed continued choosing ‘Large’ even though it was too big.
jNgeE TIL the electricity used by the clock radio on the microwave ovens and such are call Vampire Electricity and the clock radio itself is referred to as Phantom loads.
e009L It's complicated.
KPPw TIL that in 2015 nobody made it to the top of Mount Everest, but 24 people died attempting to
VQZ0 TIL that in 1992, instead of engaging in a messy legal battle over the use of a slogan, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation simply arm-wrestled for whose company would own it.