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TIL that 40.8% of children born in the US in 2010 were to unmarried women.

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8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)
QNPlE TIL that in 1983, a diving chamber containing four men was accidentally depressurized. This caused the blood of three divers inside to boil instantly, while the fourth diver was forced through a 60 cm (24 in) opening, causing his body to fragment and all of his internal organs to be expelled.
kvKe TIL that Greek people have sex the most often and Japanese people the least.
xEpw TIL In the late 1990s, Dr. Ralph Walden peer reviewed 165 studies related to the safety of aspartame. 74 were funded corporations tied to aspartame. The other 91 were independent. ALL of the research that had financial ties to aspartame deemed it safe. The remaining 92% disagreed.
ZGZD TIL in Germany there are elevators with no doors that never stop. The riders must be ready to hop on at the right time or risk being “guillotined” by the lifts.