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TIL Steve Urkel was originally conceived as a one-episode character

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b9pN9 TIL Parasitoid Wasps pierce their pointy stingers into other insects. They lay eggs inside the living hosts, and the wasp hatchings eat their way out of the still-living prey.
1aBd8 TIL pistol deuling was an event in the 1908 Olympics, in which competitors would fire wax bullets at one another.
LA70 TIL that Islam allows abortion given that the pregnancy is a threat to the women’s life, in case of rape of foetal deformity or if the foetus is less than four months old.
vbp4 TIL that the “&” and “and” mean different things in movie credits: two writers’ names joined with “&” means they collaborated, while “and” means they worked on the script at different times.
P1dNg TIL about 55 Cancri e. A hellish "diamond planet" twice as big as Earth where a year lasts 18 hours, has an ocean of molten lava on one side, and a crushing pressure that turns a large portion of its carbon interior into diamond.