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TIL: In 2007, a British woman with a Brazil nut allergy suffered the first recorded severe allergic reaction transmitted by semen during vaginal intercourse.

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6EjwZ TIL: although their bodies were badly mangled from the effects of the high altitude / hypersonic orbiter breakup, forensic evidence has revealed that the Columbia Shuttle crew very likely died in seconds from rapid loss of pressure.
510B TIL that “Reddit” in latin means “To repeat”.
1pkd TIL McDonalds doesn’t sell hot dogs because, according to founder Ray Kroc, “there’s no telling what’s inside a hot dog’s skin, and our standard of quality just wouldn’t permit that kind of item.”
D6MY TIL the Tunguska Event, an explosion in Siberia in 1908, was 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima, wiped out 80 million trees, and may have killed a total of 2 people
7rXyO TIL Frederick the Great, Prussian Monarch from 1740 to 1786, known for his tactical genius on the battlefield, is considered by historians to be primarily homosexual in orientation. Following a demoralizing defeat, he wrote "Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined."