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

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WrXo TIL of the Vermont Republic, a country in present-day Vermont that was sovereign for 14 years from 1777 to 1791, longer than the Republic of Texas. As a country, adult slavery was abolished within its boundaries.
VjxQ TIL Sleeping Beauty herself only has 18 lines of dialogue in the entire movie.
xAAk TIL in 1201, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.
WkBA4 TIL Apple sold about 10 million more watches in 2019 than the entire Swiss watchmaking industry combined
1rV7 TIL Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron)