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TIL - Nearly 1% of women in the U.S. claim to have given virgin births

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Rlx9 TIL you cannot enter Canada from the USA with a DUI on your record.
n0Zd TIL modern surgeon sponges have x-ray visible stripes because surgeons kept leaving them in patients
pPMA TIL that glass takes approximately 1 million years to decompose.
KYg5R TIL that both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the Founding Fathers of the United States and later Presidents, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
eB5k TIL In 1892, the Michelin brothers organized a bike race to promote detachable pneumatic tires. Before the race, they dumped tons of tacks on the course to sabotage it. They were successful; everyone was amazed at how quickly the racers could replace their tires.