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

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oLXL TIL On April Fool’s Day 1998, Burger King published an advertisement for “Left-Handed Whopper”. The condiments of this whopper were supposed to be rotated 180 degrees, as to avoid spilling out toppings from the right side of the burger. It was said to be the “ultimate ‘Have-it-your-way’ for lefties”
69lLW TIL Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, wrote the novel Lullaby to cope with having participated in the decision to give the death sentence to his father's murderer, a man named Dale Shackelford.
W1OY TIL India was formerly an island, but crashed into Tibet 40 million years ago. The impact created the Himalayas, which are still being pushed up by 2cm each year
9w4Lp TIL In China, Hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people are shackled or locked in cages at home because their families can't cope with their behavior.
JYWgQ TIL that the Empire State Building was constructed so rapidly (1 year and 45 days) that the steel arrived warm to the touch from Carnegie Pennsylvania.