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TIL: The United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women

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DlvV TIL King Leopald II of Belgium was responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in the Congo
bnl7 Today I learned that when the President is unmarried or his wife dies during his term, another female relative will become the First Lady. Three president’s daughters, two president’s sisters, two nieces and two daughters-in-law have been First Lady.
5YAR8 TIL the first case of artificial insemination by donor occurred in 1884 when a doctor took sperm from his "best looking" student to inseminate an anesthetized woman. The woman's infertile husband approved of the procedure, but the woman wasn't told what was happening.