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TIL Human females can be impregnated by different males in seperate sexual intercourse during the same ovulation

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aax0 TIL that sand is a non-renewable resource, and that its world supplies are beginning to dwindle as billions of tons are used in construction each year.
P1nLO TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.
Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.
Rd81 TIL: That the Soviet Diplomat Molotov was reportedly the only man to ever “shake hands” with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill.
oR7g8 TIL that of the five boxers who defeated Muhammad Ali, four of them including Joe Fraizer were trained by one man, Eddie Futch. Futch would study Ali’s style and devise weaknesses to take advantage of.