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TIL that the largest international sperm bank turns down red haired donors.

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9dMD TIL Penelope Spheeris, the director of The Decline of Western Civilization and Wayne’s World, was given the opportunity to direct This is Spinal Tap, but turned it down, thinking it wasn’t possible to make fun of heavy metal.
X0Qg8 TIL the Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in Feb 1943, one of the first major engagements of US vs Axis forces, was such a disastrous loss for the US that the British began derisively referring to US troops as "our Italians". The commander was replaced by a better-known General: George S. Patton.
44Lb TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.
7rJW7 TIL that in 1985, Xi Jinping spent 2 weeks with a US family in Iowa in order to study US agriculture.
k71e TIL, in Australia, if the note is damaged or torn, it’s value is reduced to the proportion left of the note. E.g Half a $10 note is worth $5