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TIL that after childbirth, the placenta can leave behind a wound the size of a dinner plate inside the mother’s uterus.

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GY1bj TIL There was a speech drafted in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon. “For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.”
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6EElW TIL the drug called Antabuse is sometimes prescribed to alcoholics to help them abstain. If Antabuse is in your system when you ingest alcohol, it produces an immediate and exceedingly unpleasant physical reaction, including a severe hangover.
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