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TIL An Australian woman won compensation after injuring herself having sex on a business trip

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R7dj9 TIL: Peppers are spicy because the spiciness is supposed to be a defense mechanism against predators.
RZjQ TIL in 2013 300 teenagers broke into a home while the owner was away, caused $20,000 in damages, and some of the parents threatened to sue the owner for outing them on Twitter
E1A7o TIL that Charles Darwin's children left doodles all over the original "On the Origin of Species" manuscript.
78Ayx TIL of Kaskaskia, IL, which, as a result of a shift it the Mississippi River's course, is now on the Missouri (West) side of the river and so only accessible from Missouri. 21 people live there today but it was once the capital of IL.
Ga4 TIL that the man who disproved the theory that cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis won a Nobel prize for it.