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TIL that some restaurants and businesses don't donate food for fear of being sued over someone getting sick, is completely unfounded and no one has ever been sued in the U.S for food donations

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9wKrB TIL about the "Rabbit Test," a human pregnancy test created in 1931. It involved injecting urine from a woman into a female rabbit. If the rabbit's ovaries showed enlargement upon dissection, it indicated the woman was likely pregnant, with about a 98% certainty. This was utilized until the 1970s.
W7px9 TIL Dendrosicyos socotranus, the cucumber tree is a monotypic genus in the plant family Cucurbitaceae. The species is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen, and is the only species in the Cucurbitaceae to grow in a tree form.
7njZ TIL that “as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased”
ZpaGQ TIL Cambridge university didn't grant degrees to women till 1948 and remained the only university to do so by that time.
Y4ZB TIL 35% of polled American workers said they would be willing to forego a significant pay raise in exchange for having their boss fired.