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TIL a scientist needed, for a control group, a man who has never watched porn. He couldn’t find one.

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ANmdw TIL that, in 1967, Joseph Stalin's daughter briefly lived in East Berlin, Pennsylvania after defecting to the United States
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kJ981 TIL all of Australia's 200 million wild rabbits are descended from a group of 13 European rabbits released in 1859 by Thomas Austin, a British settler released for him to hunt on his farm, by 1920 they peaked at 10 billion before a mass scale poisoning to prevent causing more environmental damage.
dPvE TIL: Homosexual black swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, then driving away the female after she lays the egg.
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