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

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wojxW TIL that unicode contains alchemical symbols (🜁🜂🜃🜄 and 104 more) because Indiana University needed to publish Isaac Newton's alchemical works online and pursued the Unicode foundation to add the symbols to assist it and other researchers working with historical and modern alchemical works
kJraB TIL it is a federal crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and a year in prison, for most people in the U.S. to possess any part of a bald or golden eagle, even just a shed feather found on the ground.
1aGyV TIL that early phonographs didn't have volume control. People stuffed socks and towels into them to quiet them--which is where we get the phrase "put a sock in it"
OGnbR TIL about the 100-Man Kumite, a martial arts challenge wherein a challenger endures 100 consecutive sparring matches against fighters of equal or higher rank. Since 1965 there have only been 30 total victors, the last being in 2020.
PYRXV TIL More people get attacked every year by a cow than by a shark.