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TIL .3% of women experience an orgasm when giving birth

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gby TIL the difference between a poison, a toxin and a venom. A poison is any substance that disturbs an organism’s functions, a toxin is a poison produced biologically and a venom is a toxin that is injected with a bite or sting.
QJKkX TIL of Lee Hyeon-seo, a North Korean defector who escaped and then went back for her mother and brother. After a long journey, her family was arrested. Lee didn’t have the money to free them. An Australian noticed her and gave her enough money to free them and two other North Koreans.
8k0Z TIL in 1956, due to a combination of air friction and a steepened dive path, an F-11 Tiger shot itself down with its own gunfire
grvQ4 TIL Almost straight after deployment, Hubble’s optics were found to be flawed. The best solution was to build replacement instruments that fixed the flaw much the same way a pair of glasses correct the vision of a near-sighted person.
1LKV TIL That during the Great Depression, the US deported around 1 million Mexicans. An estimated 60 percent of them were American Citizens.