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TIL: Advent Calendars were originally called "Nicholas Calendars" and we're given out on December 6th.

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Bg4Dy TIL Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy, was 19 years older than his second wife when they married. On their honeymoon, he took her to his dead first wife’s grave. Charmer.
ADGOB TIL For every 200 million sperm in each human ejaculation, 2 million make it into the cervix, 1 million make it into the uterus, 10,000 make it to the top of the organ, 5,000 enter the uterotubal junction, 1000 enter the Fallopian tube, 200 reach the egg and only 1 enters the egg to fertilize it.
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