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TIL that during impregnation woman's egg might just reject the fastest swimming sperm and then "choose" to be fertilized by a slower sperm instead. There are also massive differences in what man s...
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TIL that contrary to popular belief, medieval Western European women married at usually later ages, like their mid to late 20s. Getting married any younger was extremely rare and often scandalous....
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TIL Tina Fey got slashed in the face as a child and still bears the scar.
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TIL that the average purity of methamphetamine in the southwestern USA is 96.9%.
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TIL Julius Caesar never said “Et tu, Brute?” during his assassination. The Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote 150 years later that Caesar said nothing, though some claimed his final...
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TIL that after 2 friends made a promise in 1992 to split the Powerball lottery jackpot if either of them ever won it, one of them actually won the $22 million prize in 2020, keeping his promise an...
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TIL for his role in Shoresy, Jared Keeso had his tooth surgically removed to look like an older hockey player.
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TIL China has two designations when trading its own currency, the Renminbi, one within Mainland China designated as CNY and CNH for trading offshore. Both of them have different exchange rates.
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TIL Arthur Erickson designed the Museum of Anthropology to explode with light, like walking through the forest and coming out to the water. The Great Hall was demolished in 2020 as the building fe...
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TIL Torque Teno Virus is a harmles virus present in up to 98% of the population
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TIL that the vagus nerve, which controls the body's calm response, can be directly activated by slow exhales — and this is why breathing out longer than you breathe in reduces anxiety faster than ...
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TIL that when in conclaves to elect a new pope, not all cardinal electors are cut off from the outside world. The Major Penitentiary, Cardinal Vicar of Rome, and the Vicar General for the Vatican ...
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TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel comm...
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TIL that since 1993, there have been 47 incidents of Sri Lankan sports teams disappearing during overseas trips. The most famous was in 2004, when a 23-man "national handball team" vanished in Ger...
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TIL that Hebrew is the only successful attempt at a large-scale linguistic revival. After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries. It was revived as a lan...
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TIL that the estate of vice president George Clinton was so complicated that after his death in 1812 US Congress passed two acts - in 1813 and 1814 - specifically to resole it
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TIL about the "Endless Eight" arc of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The arc, which featured the characters of the show trapped in a time loop, featured the same episode eight times i...
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TIL about the largest computer chip, the Wafer Scale Engine 3. A single chip 21.5cm square with 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 cores
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TIL the Band-Aid exists because one man's wife kept injuring herself in the kitchen. In 1920, Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson rigged up gauze on surgical tape so his accident-prone wi...
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TIL On October 31, 1501, former Cardinal Cesare Borgia purportedly hosted an orgy in the Vatican with "50 honest prostitutes" in which his own father, Pope Alexander VI, not only attended but part...
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TIL Despite his reputation as a benevolent monarch, Henry IV of France ,aka "Good King Henry", was the target of at least 12 attempts on his life. He was raised a protestant and turned catholic af...
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TIL France once feared potatoes as a disease-carrying crop, so Antoine-Augustin Parmentier staged a guarded potato field and let people “steal” from it to help make potatoes popular
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TIL the Great Pyramids were already 2,500 years old when the Ptolemaic Egyptians (300–30 BCE) were around. They actively studied, documented, and restored these ancient monuments, essentially prac...
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TIL the 2002 art thriller film Irréversible deliberately added an extremely low frequency 27 Hz sound to the first 30 minutes of its soundtrack to induce nausea and anxiety in audience goers. The ...
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TIL the West Coast grocery chain Smart & Final was named after its co-founders, Jim Smart and Hildane Final
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