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TIL that a popular slang in French for having your period is "Les Anglais ont debarqué", or, "The English have landed".

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wB9W TIL that only 1 in 400 men are flexible enough to give themselves oral pleasure.
neKwB TIL that keeping a journal is not lame; instead, it is therapeutic, and it can improve not only your mental health but physical health as well.
Z8NVD TIL: the parasitic 'Honey' Mushroom (Armillaria mellea) is both one of the oldest and largest single organisms in the world; roots stretching 8.8 square kilometres and somewhere between 2,000 and 9,000 years old!
kOxjW TIL of Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, who was thrown overboard when his ship was torpedoed and sunk in WW1. He was picked up by another ship, which was also torpedoed and sunk. He then swam to third ship, which was also torpedoed and sunk. He survived the war.
8wmZ TIL in 1953, the City of Niagara Falls bought a plot of land called “Love Canal” for $1 from a chemical company that had used the area as a dump. Despite warnings from the company, a school was built on the land. From 1974–1978, 56% of children in the area were born with birth defects.