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TIL that a woman in Brazil filled her vagina with poison in an attempt to kill her husband during oral sex.

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GY14E TIL about saturation diving. Divers working on deep-sea infrastructure such as oil pipelines live in a pressurised chamber for a month, taken between the chamber and their worksite by a pressurised diving bell. That way, they only need to be decompressed once, at the end of each 28-day job.
1ayM8 TIL in the US, people running to represent a congressional district in the US House don't have to live in the congressional district in order to be able to be eligible to run
e0l6J TIL in 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World, May Myat Noe was stripped of her crown for refusing to get breast implants. Officials cites her “ungrateful attitude …. ” as their reasoning. That “ungrateful attitude” refers to the 16-year-old’s decision not to get breast implants.
wpQJ TIL In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
ZwOB TIL A Stanford psych study showed that unnecessarily using big words actually makes you sound dumber