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TIL semen is only 10% sperm (the little swimmers). The rest is made up of nutrients such as vitamin C, calcium and protein.

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b86p TIL Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt, was shot in the chest, and proceeded to deliver a 90 minute speech. He opened with: “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
5VG7k TIL that Universal Music Group (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands, and is the biggest music company in the world
6EnlQ TIL of Nandy, a Neanderthal skeleton recovered in Iraq. He suffered extensive injuries, including the loss of an arm early in his life, and was unlikely to have been able to care for himself. Despite this, he lived until the age of 45, suggesting that he was cared for by his society
ngj9 TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.
P1b5L TIL: the pallbearers at President Grant’s funeral were: Confederate generals Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, Admiral David Dixon Porter, Senator John A. Logan and his close friends: Sheridan and Sherman