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

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R7LG8 TIL that the popular cautionary narrative of the native people of Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) causing the social and ecological collapse of their island is false, and that the collapse happened AFTER European contact through the spread of disease and the kidnapping of islanders for slavery.
Lknrp TIL that oysters make pearls when an irritant enters their mouth and they deposit a mineral to coat the irritant and make it more bearable, forming a pearl.
vPV9L TIL 22.3 percent of workers ages 20 and older spent a year or less at their jobs in 2022, the highest percentage since 2006
JlLk TIL the two biggest private prison organizations in the US have clauses in their contracts that require the prisons to stay at least 90% full at all times.
gMO78 TIL In 2011 A middle aged man got heckled by some teens who he lost a game of COD to, so he found them irl and tried to choke one of them out