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TIL The part of Quebec containing the provincial capital is known as the "Capitale-Nationale"

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OGYxR TIL of baseball player Fred Merkle. In 1908 he made a base running mistake that ultimately cost his team the pennant. The play became known as “Merkle’s Boner”.
g8YX TIL that Procrastination can be connected to Perfectionism and can, in that case, be effectively defeated at the root of the problem.
wonD7 TIL a 20-yr-old man died 10 hrs after eating unrefrigerated, 5-day-old spaghetti with tomato sauce that he had reheated at school. His autopsy highlighted the importance of refrigerating food: the warmer temp allowed bacteria in the pasta to grow & produce a toxin that contributed to his death.
NNeE TIL there is a microscopic animal that’s only found on Lobster lips.
8vWG Til the G-spot has a pain-blocking function during labor; when pressure is applied to the G-spot, a woman’s pain threshold shoots up 47 percent