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TIL: Transplanted testicles will always make the donor’s sperm.

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8aVLZ TIL of the death of Don Henry and Keven Ives, who were hit by a train as they lay on the tracks. The deaths were initially ruled an accident as a result of the boys sleeping on the tracks due to marijuana intoxication. The cause of death was changed to "definite homicide" after a second autopsy.
9YmwM TIL In addition to the Rosetta Stone, numerous trilingually inscribed steles have been uncovered with the latest in 2004 (decree of Canopus). Any of these discoveries would have deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.
pxbQ TIL that Israel is the only first world country that has enough children to replace its own population. Every other first world nation depends on immigration to increase its population.
4X4Qa TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.
N7GPe TIL: The taste of blue raspberry is actually the taste of a real fruit, Rubus leucodermis, the whitebark raspberry