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TIL that women who swallow semen are less likely to develop preeclampsia.

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a8GML TIL with a radius between 640 and 764 times that of the Sun, the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse (the tenth-brightest star in the night), if it were at the centre of our Solar System, would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
grP1D TIL the Apple II version of the video game Karateka had an Easter egg whereby entering the floppy disk the wrong way up displayed a full version of the game completely upside-down.
VBp6D TIL in the year 1840, 95 years before the founding of AA, there was a group called The Washingtonians who believed in the power of one alcoholic helping another alcoholic recover. At its peak, the group had more than 600,000 members but drifted from its primary purpose and entirely dissapeared.
W7BdN TIL Allen Coage was the first African American to win a solo Olympic Games medal in a sport other than boxing or track and field. He later became a pro wrestler and went by the name Bad News Brown in WWF.
O1m7 TIL that Steven Spielberg waited 10 years after being given the story Schindler’s List to make the film, as he didn’t feel mature enough at the time.