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TIL a man's alcohol consumption before conception can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and other defects of the brain, skull and face in his child

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kJ9Md TIL About Bill Wyman from The Rolling Stones who groomed Mandy Smith at the age of 13, married her at 19 and all his band mates and friends new how young she was and were ok with it because that's the way Bill was....
WkMwL TIL about “Latchkey Incontinence” - a phenomenon where the urge to urinate gets stronger the closer you are to a bathroom. One example would be when you put your key in your front door when returning home from work.
VQpZ TIL that on an 8x8 chessboard, there are 26,534,728,821,064 ways for a knight to visit every square once and end up back at the square it started from.
XErm8 TIL about Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky a Russian photographer who traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915, and would take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality pictures in full color way before full color images were available.
4Xlr5 TIL A dead snake can still bite and kill you.