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TIL the room used to collect sperm at a sperm bank is called a masturbatorium

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GA9Nj TIL that Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived The Titanic sinking but died of complications within a year, had already endured tragedy in 1903, when his young daughter had been compressed to death in a hotel elevator shaft in Paris.
v1xK8 TIL the red line/margins on lined paper were there so when rats and mice chewed it up, the writing would still be intact because they usually wouldn’t eat the paper that far in.
p87X8 TIL Dave Thomas, the founder/owner of Wendy’s (the fast food giant), has an adoption charity which he supports with his own money. He has helped over 7,000 children have a place to call home and a family to call there own.
1G8r TIL that obese people now cost more money than smokers in American healthcare.
yd7v TIL a species of Indonesian parrot called Goffin’s cockatoo can solve complex mechanical puzzles