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TIL that when women become pregnant, their periods stop temporarily.

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b6MpQ TIL In his Inaugural address, President James Buchanan declared that the turmoil surrounding slavery was “happily, a matter of but little practical importance”. By the end of his four-year term, seven states had seceded from the Union, and civil war was imminent.
J1gej TIL in 2018, a girl who was offered an internship with NASA had her offer revoked after she told a retired NASA engineer to "suck my dick and balls." The engineer, Homer Hickman of "October Sky" fame, nevertheless attempted to get her internship back.
p8X9b TIL - Shortly after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, the Nazis had set up an area with captured Yugoslav aircraft. But while the German guards were listening to the news, local communists moved the fence separating the working ones from the non-working ones, leading to all aircraft being scrapped.
D1YDe TIL that honey bees are the first insect known to grasp the concept of zero. Study shows that honey bees can learn and apply the concepts of greater than and less than to interpret a blank stimulus as representing the conceptual number of zero and place zero in relation to other numerical values.
QNgYp TIL all the voices in Afroman's 'Because I Got High' were by Afroman himself.