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peYZ TIL up to 36 hours postmortem sperm can be harvested through sticking a electric probe up the rectal cavity and zapping the prostate gland for 1-2 seconds.
dDlPZ TIL the median American household has a combined balance of $10,000 in its checking and savings accounts
WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
XElWR TIL that statistically speaking, you are most likely to die within one month of your birthday. This is known as the "Birthday effect."
yQ44a TIL there was a man eating Leopard who killed over 150 people in British India in the early 20th century. The leopard reportedly killed a victim once every 2–3 days, each time in a different area to the last, with the killings sometimes taking place 20–30 miles apart.