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TIL U.S is world’s largest exporter of sperm.

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neVQ9 TIL that Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, assassinated federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979, the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. He had also been tried for murder two other times, and convicted for one of them.
nWoEG TIL - Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society which helped make adoption mainstream, but did so by abducting and selling children born to poor and unwed mothers. One of those abducted babies grew up to be Ric Flair.
D1eWY TIL Lawrence Kasdan, the writer for Return of the Jedi, favored having Luke kill Darth Vader and ruling in his place.
7rg8O TIL that the word "Nazi" is actually German slang for "backwards peasant", a term that existed before the Nazi party. We used it as an insulting abbreviation the their actual name, Nationalsozialistische. Hitler hated being called a Nazi. Also, the origins of a bunch of other terms.
b7Ja TIL Kowloon Walled City was the densest area in the world, ever; 187 times the population density of Hong Kong