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TIL the US has a worst child poverty rate than Greece or Slovakia

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awwlM Ancient alchemists tried just about anything to turn lead into gold. But if they had just had a laser, they might have been able to make pseudo-platinum.
DQaMr TIL if you're a female you can literally push the poop out through your vagina
ZpVwp TIL that the first artificial insemination was done using the "best looking" medical student's sperm to a woman knocked out with chloroform without her consent.
Me9kb TIL that Dracula (1930) was also filmed in Spanish with a different cast and crew - and is considered by some to be better than the original
Eg48p TIL of the hard problem of consciousness. The difficulty for the scientific community to put the experience of senses (qualia), and the existence of consciousness, into a valid scientific physical system.