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TIL that sperm can remain viable inside a woman's vagina for up to 5 days.

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J7Nv TIL In 1946 Orson Welles declined FDR’s suggestion to run for Democratic Senator for his home state of Wisconsin. The seat was won by Joseph McCarthy. Later Welles said “I didn’t believe the American people would ever vote for a divorced Hollywood actor.”
XO1D TIL The cast from Always Sunny did a live, traveling version of “The Nightman Cometh” musical episode
ORXY TIL George Lucas got the word Jedi from Jidaigeki, which is a Japanese term for Samurai period Drama
yQwBe TIL during WW1, Germany used cow intestines to make Zeppelin airships, and made so many that it became illegal to make sausages, as it diverted cow intestines from the war effort. 250,000 cows were needed for each zeppelin!
AVxg TIL Mark David Chapman planned to kill David Bowie and had a front row seat (along with John & Yoko) for Bowie’s Broadway show the day after killing John