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TIL that fetuses can get the hiccups

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e0XZn TIL that the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, urinated on a tire of the bus that took her to the launch site. This remarkable woman was only 26 years old, a former textile factory worker, and was in space a full two decades before the first U.S. woman was.
5YP4R TIL: You can send a Valentine's Card to sick children at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital
kOx5B TIL that 10% of the Seychelles' working population are addicted to heroin
lo6JN TIL Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years, her family had to massage her legs four times a day, and she had to wear a metal brace. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympic event.
E1aW0 TIL that, by the time dinosaurs roamed on Earth, our planet took 23 hours to rotate on its axis.