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TIL Men produce around 1,500 sperm - per second

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9YWpm TIL The car Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in bore the license plate number "A 111 118." This is number coincidentally corresponds with 11-11-18, the end date of WW1 (Armistice Day).
Ojag TIL: Not only are cats still mostly wild, but they also pretty much tamed themselves.
yBZw TIL that the Hoover Dam, adjusted for inflation, cost less than a modern B2 Stealth Bomber
e0Jv4 TIL for his role in liberating the Jews of Babylon and allowing them to rebuild in Zion, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, is the only non-Jewish person in the Bible/Torah to be described as a messiah.
LkZj0 TIL that while there is a large focus on the phenomenon of suicide in Japan / Japanese culture, they actually have lower suicide rates than Belgium, India, South Korea, Russia, and 20+ other countries. Their rate is barely higher than the United States.