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TIL that the biggest sperm bank in the world turns down red headed donors because “not enough people want ginger kids”

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m1ZJM TIL that the Marquis of Queensbury once told Oscar Wilde "If I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you". Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight".
l7YyB TIL people in London used to celebrate "Frost Fairs" on the river Thames when it froze over allowing pubs, market stalls and events to be set up on the ice (Once there was even a parade of Elephants!).
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