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TIL that the formal name for baby teeth in mammals is "deciduous" teeth, the same word used to refer to trees who uniformly shed and regrow their leaves.

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Lnpr TIL that Barbra Streisand constructed a 19th-century style shopping mall in her basement so that she can go out “shopping” for dolls, sweets, and gowns
P1AGn TIL tabloid newspaper "News of the World", once put out a headline "Hollywood Star's Nazi Secret," falsely claiming Arnold Schwarzenegger was a closeted Hitler supporter whose father rounded up Jews for concentration camps. The article's source? Sylvester Stallone.
LQM8Q TIL that the Indian mathematician and astronomer Baudhayana, who lived around 800 BCE, wrote the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, which describes the construction of various geometric shapes using a rope known as a "sulba” with precise geometric measurements, the Pythagorean theorem, area of a circle.
kJWm7 TIL there are Japanese, Chinese and Korean studies correlating male nose size and penis size. For Japanese studies, cadavers were used and "stretched length" was measured.
DQ1Ke TIL about the Hamlet chicken processing plant fire, where many workers died because multiple exits were blocked or locked.