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TIL - The miscarriage rate is higher than people perceive. On average 12.5% of women who know the are pregnant have a miscarriage within the first 23 weeks of pregnancy.

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XEGAD TIL: An 11 year old boy with 23 felonies for committing murder, arson, armed robbery, and was payed with candy he liked. He was murdered by his own fellow gang members who were 14 and 16 brothers
7Nrp TIL in 2014, a 23 year old female accidentally killed herself by absorbing methamphetamine via her vagina - the autopsy found a meth-filled plastic bag inside of her, and the concentration in her blood was 2.4 times the greatest concentration ever found in a human
VP5D TIL that a woman was fined $1.9 million for illegally downloading 24 songs, $80,000 per song.
PYBNG TIL During the filming of the 1953 film Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident. Comedy actor Peter Sellers, then not known internationally, but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub some of Bogart's lines while Bogart was unable to speak.
r8D1 TIL in 1975 a cat was listed as co-author on a physics paper because the author had incorrectly used the royal “we” throughout the paper and didn’t want to typewrite the whole thing again