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TIL In Spanish, the word for manliness (la hombría) is feminine

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d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.
rPX4 TIL homeopaths without borders is an actual charity
KOxjR TIL that Freeform, formerly the Family Channel, the Fox Family Channel and ABC Family, was originally an evangelical Christian channel called the CBN Satellite Service before being sold to Fox and later Disney
VB7A4 TIL about "parallel construction" in the US: a law enforcement process of creating a parallel basis for investigation, usually in order conceal that evidence was acquired in violation of the Fourth Amendment (e.g. illegal surveillance)
4kd46 TIL about the drafting tool known as a "french curve", which can let a person draw smooth curves of basically any desired curvature depending on the scale. It's a tool where you don't need any complicated measurements, and has a very large amount of uses from architecture to fashion!