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TIL blowing air into woman’s vagina while she is pregnant can be potentially fatal.

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9wdgG TIL Saudi Culture Ministry bought a Leonardo Da Vinci painting for a world-record $450m at an auction in New York. Later, scientific evidence suggested that Da Vinci only made a contribution to the painting, and experts consider that the painting was more likely to have been the work of his studio

nea6r TIL The Legend of the Christmas Spider is an Eastern European folktale explaining tinsel on Christmas trees. A poor widow could not afford to decorate her tree. A spider covered it in cobwebs overnight. Morning sunlight turned the webs into gold and silver. They never lived in poverty again.

grrgb TIL: Mark Shepard took a degraded corn farm and turned it into a biodiverse, nutritionally dense, habitat-rich high-yield farm using regenerative agriculture which uses no chemical inputs, builds topsoil faster than previously thought possible, and outperforms conventional and organic agriculture.

vmVj TIL In 2010 Dave Grohl was admitted to hospital due to a drug overdose… He had consumed too much caffeine from coffee whilst recording a new album.

5YMgk TIL Isaac Singer, of Singer Sewing Machine fame, had more than two-dozen children with a variety of wives and mistresses. Several relationships overlapped and a few of his children were born in the same year.