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TIL About 3 percent of children cannot have the father their mothers say they have.

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DKXY TIL that when male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen’s nuptial flight, she’ll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of dead, penisless bees in her wake.
ADJD4 TIL there was a “no-nose club” in the 19th century for sufferers of syphilis whose noses had collapsed
x6bY0 Today I learned the longest running joke in the movie Airplane! is the jet has the sound of propeller engines.
YB1P TIL in 2005 the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine. Later, in 2008, a Finnish pizza won an international pizza contest coming first before Italy in second and Australia in third. The name of the first place pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi”.
NXp4E TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second).