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TIL that after a bone marrow transplant, a man’s semen contains only the donor’s DNA

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Oll1 TIL: The FTC states that your eye care provider must give you a copy of your contact lens and eyeglass prescriptions — whether or not you ask for them.
PlkE TIL: William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million in a lottery, and after his brother tried to kill him, his ex-wife sued him, and he was arrested multiple times, he ended up dying with $1 million in debt.
xDr0 TIL that Marie Curie and her daughter Irène between them received half of all the Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prizes awarded to women
VMBaD TIL The code to inform US troops that South Vietnam was lost and should be evacuated instantly, was a weather report followed by the song "White Christmas"... in April.
LkP4r TIL Groundwater wells in old times were dug by pick and shovel until the digger couldn't bail anymore