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TIL in 90% of cases when a pregnant woman's water breaks, it's not an emergency because it happens after she went into labour, unlike in movies when it happens before and it indicates that she's going into labour

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OmD6 TIL a child porn sting found 5,200 Pentagon employees suspected of accessing kiddie porn. Only a handful were prosecuted.
B8Vx TIL George Orwell’s 1984 which condemns totalitarianism in a police state, is readily available in China, having been translated 13 times from 1985 to 2012
VBo4Z TIL that the author of "The Last Ringbearer", a retelling of "Lord of the Rings" from Mordor's point of view, also wrote "The Gospel of Afranius", a retelling of the New Testament from an atheistic point of view
R70da TIL drug lord Pablo Escobar turned himself in to the authorities on the condition (other than not being extradited to the U.S.) that he would build the prison himself and choose his own guards. The "prison" also featured a football pitch, giant doll house, bar, jacuzzi among other amenities.
WJgN TIL the Stone Age ended between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, but lasted roughly 3.4 million years. The Stone Age represents more that just the beginning of human existence, it’s the overwhelming bulk of human existence