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TIL the number of vasectomies during March Madness goes up 50+% because guys schedule the procedure during that time so they can sit around and watch basketball for days during recovery.

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Me6wW TIL 17th-century Europeans knew teen pregnancy was dangerous for women; Shakespeare may have written Juliet’s age as 13 wanting to marry Romeo in secret to shock Elizabethan audiences
rNJBe TIL American women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) argued in her landmark essay 'On the Equality of the Sexes' in part by highlighting women's "talent for slander" to show women's power of "creative faculty"
EXWW TIL King Charles VI of France suffered from glass delusions, a psychiatric phenomenon in which people believe they’re made of glass. Charles VI refused to let people touch him and wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from accidental “shattering.”
pY04p TIL there is a rainforest in Iran!
8a8nK TIL that a plane carrying 6,000 pounds of pot crashed in Yosemite National Park. Climbers in Yosemite Valley heard news of the crash and sparked a miniature gold rush with up to 20 people searching the frozen crash site. Much of the weed was salvaged, smoked, or sold before park rangers caught on.