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TIL that it wasn’t until 1875 that scientists figured out where babies come from

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1aVM4 TIL that a rule was put in place in 1906 by Tiffany and Company that prevented anyone from buying an empty box in their signature blue color. Each and every Tiffany box had to contain a store purchase.
nOrW TIL that during WWII the Dutch resistance recruited teen girls to seduce Nazis so they could shoot them in the woods
d8W49 TIL Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was caught forging documents simply because the font that was used didn’t exist at the time the documents were allegedly created
xG6g TIL Mao promised that Chinese steel production would surpass England and overtake America. As a result, many Chinese children born in 1958 and 1959 were named “Chaoying” (“Surpass England”) and “Chaomei” (“Overtake America”).
kKD7 TIL the only person to ever play themselves in any Star Trek series was Stephen Hawking