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TIL that hymens don't necessarily break with losing virginity, but stretch most of the time.

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78WaZ TIL Darwin, Australia was named after Charles Darwin but before he published his theory of evolution. Captain Wickham sailed with Darwin during HMS Beagle's first voyage, then he named the area after his old crewmate during the second voyage when he surveyed Northern Australia.
4XPkX TIL that a thermos works because there is a vacuum between the walls of the container, limiting the transfer of heat to or from its contents.
xEKD TIL a Russian man, mad with an unsolicited credit card offer, scanned, edited, printed, and sent it back. The bank approved 0% interest, no fees, unlimited credit, and paying $182,000 for cancelling his account. They sued him years later, he won, and he’s counter-suing them for closing his account.
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OnAY TIL Kodak employed blind people to develop colour photos and manufacture film because those jobs needed to be done in pure darkness.