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TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.

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461X TIL a Kansas woman sat on her boyfriends toilet seat for so long (two years) that her skin grew around it
ADexn TIL that Sister Rosetta Tharpe pioneered many of the guitar techniques fundamental to modern rock/metal as early as the 30s and 40s
v8kK TIL that according to Mormonism, after being expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve went to live in Missouri.
NX5EP TIL that a giraffe doesn't have horns or antlers but something different called ossicones
x6rKb Til in response to the 1973 oil crisis, West Germany implemented car-free Sundays.