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TIL that most of a woman’s eggs are made during fetal development. So technically, half of you was an egg in your mother when your mother was just a fetus in your grandmother’s womb.

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W7pX8 TIL that Barry Goldwater and some other senators sued Jimmy Carter over the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China
X0EmE TIL Napoleon’s military tactics are still utilized by armies, and studied by students in academies around the world 200 years later.
kO8Gm TIL Two-headed snakes struggle to thrive in the wild because the two heads “argue” with each other, thus making them vulnerable to predators
8aJ4G TIL that a man named George Wright in 1972 hijacked a plane and disappeared. He was then on the run for 41 years until he was captured in Portugal.
k6B7 TIL in certain public toilets (concert halls, bars) the light is sometimes blue to make veins harder to see. This way drug users can’t inject themselves