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TIL that 43% of sexual acts are completed within two minutes.

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xrMD TIL that before his murder, actor Phil Hartman wanted to make a live action film based on one of his favourite characters, Troy McClure.
WkWGB TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.
rRyPx TIL in the early 20th Century women would use their hat pin to physically defend themselves from being harassed in public transport. It worked so well that law makers at the time outlawed it. In Australia, sixty women went to jail rather than pay fines for wearing “murderous weapons” in their hats
5YxPP TIL that due to the positioning of their legs, Loons are nearly incapable of walking. They often confuse wet pavement for bodies of water and become stranded as they require a long stretch of open water to take off again.
woJp7 TIL that the first Palio di Siena, in its modern form, took place in 1633, but public races organized by the contrade were popular from the 14th century onwards