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TIL sperm cells can live for up to 30 hours after a man has died. The sperm can be gathered and used for posthumous fertilization.

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o9R7 TIL that a fake Wikipedia article about a fictional war (“Upper Peninsula War”) went unnoticed for years.
9VkM TIL:The U. S. Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, in at least 26 locations off both coasts - The Army can’t say exactly where all the weapons were dumped because records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed. “It’s a disaster looming — a time bomb”
oBo4r TIL that Germany funded the 1917 communist revolution in Russian (Lenin and the Bolsheviks) to bring down the Russian monarchy it was at war with. Only for Lenin to attempt to fund a communist revolution in Germany later.
N7orM TIL the capital of what would become modern Spain was in Toledo until 1561 when Phillip II decided to separate the seats of power for church and state by moving the gov't to Madrid
VM5nZ TIL that North Carolina Congress man Robert Potter resigned from Congress after castrating two men he believed were having an affair with his wife in (1831).