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TIL Anne Frank detailed her sexual exploration in her original diary but it was later edited out by her father.

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PboZ TIL bioluminescence in lightning bugs is nearly 100% efficient.
Y70x7 TIL that it used to be unlawful for South Koreans with the same surname and origin to marry and it was not until 2002 that this rule was amended
nW5Pr TIL In 2014 a Jamaican phone scammer threatened to kill a retired American man named William Webster when he wouldn't fall for the scam. The scammer didn't know Webster was the former director of both the FBI and CIA. He was arrested when he flew to NYC in 2017 and sentenced to 6 years in prison.
pYJG8 TIL of Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye, a woman who has birthed 51 children, with 44 still alive. As of April 2023, her eldest children is 31 years old, and the youngest is six years old. She is a single mother, who was abandoned by her husband in 2015.
yVVda TIL The town of Yale, British Columbia, was once known as the biggest city west of Chicago and north of San Francisco following the 1850s gold rush. Yale burnt down so many times that most of the historic buildings are gone but the Museum is located in an old 1868 house next door to the 1863 church