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TIL that the first artificial insemination was done using the "best looking" medical student's sperm to a woman knocked out with chloroform without her consent.

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yQojV The Denver-based startup says its planes will fly at twice the speed of sound, making the trip from New York to London in only 3.5 hours.
kO0pW TIL about the oldest monorail in the World that was built during the time the Kaiser ruled Germany and is still running today
ZpKND TIL 85,200 Swiss women lost from 1848-1952 their citizenship when marrying foreigners due to the "marriage rule". If they married Jews denationalized by Nazi Germany, they became stateless and some died in gas chambers. A 1952 revision allowed retention or reinstatement of citizenship.
5pKp TIL sea level rise is attributed to ice melting on land, not ice melting on the sea. Like a glass of water with ice; the volume doesn’t change when it melts, so we need to beware of Greenland and Antarctica’s ice melting.
Qv7E TIL As a joke, Pablo Escobar asked one of his men to bring him a cup of coffee and quietly popped an Alka-Seltzer. Escobar accused his bodyguard of poisoning him and ordered his men to tie the man up and point a machine gun at him for ten minutes while he begged for his life