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TIL surrogacy is illegal in China, Quebec, Turkey, and most of Western Europe

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6mB8 TIL queen bees continues to mate until she collects more than 70 million sperm from multiple males.
p89Oe TIL that until 2002, six-day school weeks were the norm in Japan.
lVaK TIL the USDA has given $130 million to Planet Aid, an organization that claims it is helping poor African farmers, but is actually ran by a cult-leader who is hiding out in Mexico in a $20 million condo from the Danish government. Instead of helping, the cult makes the farmers pay from their salary.
ANLQ7 TIL A Samurai named Seigo Yamazawa actually fought on the side of the Bulgarians during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). Eventually Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottomans. He has a bust today in present day Burgas regions.
KYEMw TIL that the world's largest recorded snowman was 113 feet tall and built in Maine in 2008