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TIL that the largest amount of babies a woman has given birth to in their lifetime is 69. Mrs. Vassilyeva, who lived in Shuya, Russia in the early 1700s, gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets: 27 pregnancies and 69 children in total.

QNEKe TIL the proportion of Iowa’s energy that comes from wind is at almost 60%, the highest in the United States.
dDXXB TIL drowning is not strictly when someone dies from inhaling water, but refers to the automatic neurological response to a breathing emergency due to submersion in water. You can have drowned with no water entering your lungs and have no later health complications.
Y7BgG TIL that on the night before The Drifters were to record their legendary hit "Under the Boardwalk", vocalist Rudy Lewis was found dead from a likely heroin overdose. Rather than reschedule the studio session, the part was given to the group's former lead vocalist, Johnny Moore
X0kRQ TIL about the Decebalus Treasure found by a Roman army in 106 AD during the Second Dacian War. Decebalus, the last king of the Dacians, diverted the Sargetia River (in modern-day Romania) to bury all his wealth. Someone betrayed him, and the Romans found 330,000 lb of gold and 650,000 lb of silver.
rroW TIL there is a farm in the middle of Kansas to which 600 million IP addresses are registered due to a glitch in the IP mapping software which maps them close to the geographical centre of the USA.