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

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mxDxM TIL that Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg founded a project to send swarms of tiny spacecraft, driven by solar sails powered by gigawatt lasers, to nearby stars.
WpoA TIL that “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “The Powerpuff Girls” are set within the same universe. “The Justice Friends” exist in both shows, creating the link.
eE0g TIL the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in 1990. “In my opinion the assassination turned out well, considering who they gave the job to. In any event, it wasn’t our intention to cause a world war.”
nekEd TIL Pope Clement VII personally approved Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun in 1533, 99 years before Galileo Galilei’s heresy trial for similar ideas.
4kOvg TIL there's a place in Kentucky called Krypton. According to the postmaster, it was probably named that due to the krypton gas bulbs used by a train depot back in the day.