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TIL Jason Lee is no longer a Scientologist
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TIL all of Ryan Gosling’s lines in Drive can be condensed into less than 5 minutes
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TIL that the first known reference to mutual simultaneous oragenitalism as "69" is in the 1790s French book Whore's Catechisms, attributed to Mlle. Théroigne de Méricourt (one the early leaders of the French Revolution), where it is named "soixante-neuf"
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TIL that women can give birth to twins with different biological fathers (heteropaternal superfecundation). The frequency has not been established, but one study found it occurred in around 1 in every 42 cases of fraternal twins whose parents were involved in paternity disputes.
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TIL that due to a former Irish crewman re-stealing his stolen booty, Welsh pirate 'Black Bart' believed all Irish were dishonest. When word got out about Barts prejudice, people he tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent in order to escape a life on the high seas.
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TIL that four high-school students in the ‘70s are the reason we no longer have pay toilets in America. They created an organization called CEPTIA, and were able to successfully lobby against the issue. 8 years later, pay toilets were all but nonexistent throughout the US.