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TIL that men have to pay child support to women who rape them

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ZaQo TIL that in 1990 the Galileo Spacecraft, in an experiment designed by Carl Sagen, passed by Earth to see if life could be detected from space. The answer? Barely, but yes.
wNLY TIL: The word “set” has 464 definitions… Making it the word with the most variety
ZpmKB TIL that the reason mint tastes cold is that menthol activates a protein called TRPM8 in your nerve cells that normally respond to cold. It is the only food that does do. (Although capsaicin, similarly, activates a different protein, VR1, that senses heat.)
gMOA4 TIL the longest river in Antarctica is the Onyx River. It's 20 miles long and flows away from the ocean.
8LgL TIL that the abbreviations i.e., and e.g., have two very different meanings and are in no way synonymous.