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TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.

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78V9L TIL there was a man who was granted a considerable amount of land by King Henry II in exchange for an annual performance of farting. Roland the Farter was a twelfth century flatulist.
awbdN TIL that 'virgin births' among animals are real, and the process is called parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction.
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