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TIL Marylin Monroe's real name is Norma Jeane Mortenson

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W79yN TIL male kangaroos have two penises that sit below the balls, females have 3 vaginas, and in the process of trying to find out why/ how this works, I learned echidnas have 4 penises but only 2 can get hard at once (wtf even is nature!?)
4Ogg TIL that Saddam Hussein used Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” as his campaign song in the 2002 election
e0pAL TIL That in 1941 maps and other escape aids were smuggled to Allied POWs in Monopoly sets during World War II. Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets.
WlPB TIL there was such bad communication between the officers on the Titanic that the ship’s quartermaster, George Rowe, did not know the ship was sinking until he asked why he had seen lifeboats being lowered into the water
49EJ TIL that natural vaginal lubrication is mostly made of blood plasma.