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TIL Celine Dion met her husband when she was 12 and he was… 38

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j6Pln TIL: Hundreds of thousands of US students disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere.
epa44 TIL the Bruce effect, or pregnancy block, is the tendency for female rodents to terminate their pregnancies following exposure to the scent of an unfamiliar male. The effect was first noted in 1959 by Hilda M. Bruce and has primarily been studied in laboratory mice.
9wwrM TIL of Adnan Khashoggi, a successful Saudi businessman who, among other business, would bring together US arms companies and the Saudi Government, and make a commission on deals. He became so rich he had a fleet of private jets and his lavish lifestyle cost $250,000 a day just to maintain.
pY6jp TIL that Ozzy Osbourne is a genetic mutant. The musician has several gene variants that "we've never seen before," said geneticist Nathaniel Pearson, who sequenced the rocker's genome, including variants that could impact how Osbourne's body absorbs methamphetamines and other recreational drugs.
gMPp4 TIL a Chinese general once scared away an army of 10,000, with a flute. The well known general sat on the wall of his undermanned city playing the flute, with the gates flung open. The opposition assumed it to be a trap and retreated.