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TIL that royal women used to give birth in front of an audience to prove that the child was indeed the fruit of the royal woman’s womb.

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dD7nK TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"
Ev7W TIL including humans, all living creatures emit a weak light from their entire body in a process known as “biophoton emission.”
XE9mj TIL BBW is actually Big /Beautiful/ Woman, made up by a fashion company.
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