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TIL that females of many mammal species have a bone in their clitoris called 'the baubellum or os clitoridis'

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jNBMQ TIL the inventor of the Erector Set also released an "Atomic Energy Laboratory" that included real uranium ore. One suggested activity was to play "hide and seek with the gamma ray source" by using the included Geiger counter to find a radioactive sample hidden in a room.
lo55V TIL that due to a copyright issue, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain, and can be downloaded for free on the internet. It is currently the most downladed film on the Internet Archive, with 3.1 million downloads.
jd9j TIL A British sailor in WWII escaped his submarine from depths of 171 feet and managed to get to the surface and survive.
pgBO TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.
6ENkJ TIL that gunpowder was invented in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists who were (ironically) searching for an elixir for immortality.