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TIL about "Conflicting Out" - the act of interviewing several top attorneys as a tactic to prevent one's spouse from hiring those attorneys in a divorce, as it creates a conflict of interest.

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yQmkV TIL not only does the Aztec word that became avocado mean “testicle” (because it grows in pairs), but the fruit was apparently adapted for megafauna like mammoths and giant sloths who would eat it and poop out its unusually large seed in distant locations.
N7odJ TIL that during the mid-20th century, the leading British neurologist was a man named Russell Brain.
6Ed08 TIL that some Native Americans tribes were major slave holders.
KOLkR TIL that reportedly after dying at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, General George Custer was found mutilated with sewing awls shoved in his ears and an arrow that "had been forced up his penis."
OopW6 TIL Penis length and girth, and circumference is passed mostly by the X chromosome (mother) which contains around 900 genes compared with the Y chromosome’s (father) estimated 90 genes