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TIL between 1973 and 2011, sperm counts have declined by 50-60% among men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand

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gMae4 TIL in one canton in Switzerland, citizens use their family sword as voter ID and women were only granted the right to vote in 1991.
R7y67 TIL that the non-existent Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia has had pretenders to the throne from 1860 to the present day
7Myx TIL oil was formed from bacteria in the ocean and not dinosaurs.
MKYB TIL Police in the UK have shot dead 5 people in the last 4 years. In the US, this figure is 1600
9Xb6 TIL that because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, which are limited compared to English which ends in verbs and nouns, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme