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TIL Burt Shavitz, co-creator and face of Burt’s Bees, was an accomplished photographer prior to beekeeping and had photographs published in Life and Time Magazines.

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oRJL8 TIL 90% of the Earth's population live in the Northern Hemisphere
59Ek TIL that in Middle Age Britain, the church taught that for ‘Godly Congress’ both the man and the woman needed to produce sperm. The only way a woman could produce sperm was to orgasm. All 'ungodly’ sex was frowned upon, so most sex involved maximum effort to produce a strong female orgasm.
pYdlQ TIL : These 100 Illustrated Cognitive Biases Have Changed How I Think
VBd0D TIL that there is a name for when people are cousins through both parents, it is "double cousins".
b9YWZ TIL the reason why NASA (and later the Russians) use a specialised space pen instead of pencil in space is because the graphite of pencils is conductive and can cause short circuits and even fires. The pens have been used since the Apollo era and are still being used right now on the ISS.