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TIL Repeated exposure to their partners sperm can reduce pregnancy complications in women

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0WaN TIL Australia largest ever petition of 792,985 signatures was submitted to parliament in 2000 to protest rising beer prices.
VM1mm TIL Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. Maize supplanted Africa’s own historical grain crops—sorghum, millet, and rice
PRae TIL that a quarter of the US doesn’t have access to dependable broadband. They still use dial-up
BvVb TIL that football player Mardy Gilyard was kicked out of the University of Cincinnati and owed the school $10,000. he then worked 4 jobs simultaneously and slept in his car just to get back into school, eventually becoming the leading wide receiver in UC history
AJXl TIL El Paso, TX was once considered the second-safest city in America. Meanwhile, the Mexican city with which it shares a border, Juarez, had one of the highest murder rates in the world.