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TIL: There is an actual nutritional label and serving size for a man’s ejaculate.

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DQVgg TIL one night in 2021 Ruth Hamilton had been asleep for hours in her home when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking which gave her a moment's notice before a meteorite roughly the size of a melon crashed through her ceiling & came to rest on her pillow, inches from where her head had just been.
696Gm TIL during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson believed annexing Canada and expelling the British from the North American continent would be relatively easy—"a mere matter of marching." But Canada was populated largely by British loyalists at the time and the US invasions ended in dismal failure.
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