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TIL Russians were making color photos over 100 years ago.

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67yw TIL for $700, many girls in China pay for a surgery to restore their hymen before their wedding night to fake virginity so that husbands can see blood on the sheets during the honeymoon night.
yQBJp TIL that the reason many old people seem to be able to easily speak their mind and not care what people think about them is because the area of the brain that is responsible for impulse control, the prefrontal cortex, is most susceptible to age-based deterioration.
XE5oj TIL about the whistling language called Sylbo. Native to the Canary Islands, Sylbo is thousands of years old and developed as a means for inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across deep ravines and narrow valleys.
loZ0A TIL Owls have long legs
WkG0B TIL Russians do not actually use the term comrade and the term is actually translated as tovarisch and used as such