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TIL that NYC approved the use of rat birth control to curb its rat population

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GYWn4 TIL that Fucking Hell is a German Pilsner or pale lager with an alcohol content of 4.9%. It is named after the village of Fucking in Austria; hell is the German word for 'pale' and a typical description of this kind of beer
xV8n0 TIL that the majority of Americans teenagers are still virgins by the time they hit eighteen, and the number using birth control has increased over time.
oL47 TIL in 2016, inspired by an ancient toy called a whirligig, Manu Prakash developed the Paperfuge. The hand-powered centrifuge made of paper, string, and plastic weighs about 2 grams, costs less than a quarter to make, and can spin biological samples in circles at an astonishing 125,000 rpm.
a8w6Z TIL Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) has to date given $17,500,000 to Scientology
0db6L TIL that earthworms are not native to North America. Glaciers from the Pleistocene ice age wiped out most native earthworms over 10,000 years ago. New earthworms began entering North America as early as the 1600s, with the first European settlers.