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

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yG58 TIL an Auburn University graduate, James Brooks, was discovered to be illiterate after he couldn’t read court documents regarding him not paying child support.
KOQYG TIL that in 1508, Autun, France pressed charges on rats for destroying barley crops. The lawyer representing the rats argued that the court's summons wasn't specific enough to his clients, and that Autun's cat population made it unsafe for his clients to come to court. The rats were acquitted.
7r9MO TIL famous mathematician Kurt Gödel became paranoid of being poisoned in his old age. He was so afraid that he only ate his wife's cooking, and died of starvation after she passed away.
j6E5v TIL that XM4 5HQ is the UK postcode for Father Christmas, a leetspeak of "XMAS HQ"
xVnno TIL Jim Carrey was the first actor to have three films go straight to number one in the same year. The year was 1994, and the films were The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Dumb and Dumber.