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TIL There’s a guy who fathered 98 children as an act of charity

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KELa TIL over a period of 200 years, 3 ships perished at the same location (off the coast of Wales), on the same day (December 5th), and each wreck had only 1 survivor. All 3 of the survivors were called Hugh Williams.
BgaDr TIL that menstrual products are not tax exempt, while Rogaine and Viagra, are.
pybG TIL that German monks gave up food for Lent, and survived on beer and water alone for 40 days a year.
yVVvJ TIL when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, people in the capital Vienna were so violent towards their Jewish population the Nazi government threatened the the local authorities against 'undisciplined' attacks on the city's Jews (Paywalled)
ZpXYG TIL modern Africa is associated with large mammals like elephants, lions, and rhinos, but large mammals had a global distribution until a mass extinction roughly 11,700 years ago and Africa is simply the only continent that retained a large amount of them