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TIL that hyenas give birth through their clitoris.

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nVXP TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams visited William Shakespeare’s house together, and chipped off a piece of his chair as a souvenir.
R78O9 TIL "tsundoku" is a Japanese term that refers to the fact of buying books and never reading them.
l7Yxr TIL that the first colour frames in a film were used to be hand painted, by female artists.
gje7 TIL that in Quake III Arena, when developers needed to calculate x^(-½), one used a piece of code and the hexadecimal number 0x5f3759df to calculate it about 4 times faster than floating-point division. It was so strange another developer commented in the code “what the fuck?”
75kX TIL law in India mandates that doctors write prescriptions in CAPITAL LETTERS in a ‘Legible’ writing as a measure to prevent deaths caused by the misinterpretation of their sloppy handwriting.