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TIL of a tiger who terrorized rural villages in Asia and is estimated to have killed 436 people

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AxDo TIL in 2005, a German television show was produced in which twelve male competitors donated their sperm to be sent to a lab in Cologne. At the lab, three doctors then observed the sperm as they “raced” toward an egg. The man with the fastest sperm won a new red Porsche.
kJ8G1 TIL babies can’t be born in space yet.
R5bQ7 TIL that when The Roots of Heaven was filmed in French Equatorial Africa, there were 900 sick calls from a crew of only 120 people.
ewW5 TIL: Viggo Mortensen bonded with the horse he rode in Lord of the Rings so be bought it from the owner.
neKLB TIL during the Golden Gate Bridge sagged by 7 feet under the weight of 300,000 people on it celebrating its 50th anniversary . The towers were even pulled inward from so much weight.