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TIL male birth control is currently being tested on Baboons with a 100% success rate and will be available to the public within 1 - 2 years.

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kwv1 TIL there was a street artist in Brazil, that painted skulls in Sao Paolo tunnels with stencils and a pressure washer, forcing the city to clean the tunnels to remove the artwork.
EM9V TIL If a cow loses a calf at birth, farmers skin the dead calf and make an orphan calf wear the skin so that the mother will accept it as her own
0GQy TIL that on Nov. 28, 2013, comet ISON will fly through the sun’s atmosphere little more than a million km from the stellar surface. If the comet survives without breaking up it could emerge glowing as brightly as the Moon, visible near the sun in broad daylight.
x97D TIL that the US government rejected several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, 1 million barrels of oil, canned food, bottled water, 1500 doctors and 26.4 metric tons of medicine from Cuba and Venezuela for the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
8aAWG TIL that the fingerprints of slaves still exist in bricks that the slaves made over 200 years ago