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TIL that NFL player Antonio Cromartie has 10 children from 8 different women and despite getting a vasectomy is expecting twins with his wife. Several of the other women keep in touch and most of the moms are on board for a reality show about the situation.

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OM06 TIL Canada was invited to join the United States in the Articles of Confederation in 1777
gm17 TIL Bob Dylan was arrested for walking around a neighborhood outside of New Jersey in the pouring rain. Residents called reporting a strange man lurking around. The 24 yr old cop had no idea who he was even after he told her his name.
vPy4r TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside.
gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again
KYObw TIL that buildings so big they "need their own ZIP code" are very much real, however this is not due to the actual size of the buildings themselves, rather it's the sheer volume of mail they receive. One example is the Walmart Headquarters, which has a unique ZIP code of 72716.