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TIL Human sexuality is influenced by genetics

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p8MQb TIL that old cruise ships like the Titanic had black hulls to hide coal dust
QJVnp TIL - Los Angeles, California people are Worst U.S. Drivers
J1AlV TIL there is a club for people who have been ejected from an airplane seat. When you become a member they give you a commemorative tie, currently there are over 6,000 members.
MenVK TIL The spike on the German Pickelhaube helmet was supposed to function as a blade tip, designed to deflect sword blows aimed at the head. The Pickelhaube offered almost no protection from bullets & shrapnel to German soldiers during WWI.
DyeD TIL In 2013, Russian artist and activist Petr Pavlensky sat down naked in Red Square and pounded a nail through his scrotum and into the cobblestone street. He called it a “metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society.”