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TIL that Prince is a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and occasionally knocks on people’s doors to discuss his faith.

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NwLN TIL male trees lacking a female mate are often responsible for allergies (the equivalency of “blue balls” in animals, except with super pollination)
xVbx1 TIL that the G-spot is named after the German doctor Ernst Gräfenberg, due to his pioneering research in the area.
VQQp TIL Up until the 17th century humans practiced 2 sleeps a day instead of the modern uninterrupted 8 hour a night norm. Studies have shown that the idea of 2 sleeps is much more in tune in what our bodies actually want us to do.
RWG7 TIL that Shrapnel is named after its inventor, Henry Shrapnel.
l78nB TIL that a key reason that Pyramid Schemes are illegal is because of market saturation. If you started a pyramid scheme with 5 people and each person recruited 5 more people, by the 15th tier you would’ve exceeded the entire population of the earth.