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TIL there is a hormone called "Relaxin" that Relaxes pelvic ligaments to help with pregnancy.

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VMLVZ TIL of Eben Grumpy of Iowa who was a little slow in paying John Sputter $30 he owed him. Sputter threatened to sue, so Grumpy painted a check on a door and dropped it on him from a third-story window next time he came over. A court ruled the door was legal payment.
wLN5o TIL Joseph Conrad, who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language, was born in Poland and did not speak English fluently until his twenties.
5VP5R TIL in the 1930’s, Mussolini, outlawed pasta. Instead of producing strong Italian soldiers, the pasta weighed the youth down and made them lazy. The real reason was that Mussolini wanted to sell more rice, a staple crop in his home region in Northern Italy, which caused a split with the South.
oBWM7 TIL That France had a king that only ruled for 5 days because that was his entire lifespan. He has the shortest reign of any French king and the only one to have become one upon birth
D9YY TIL that development of the F-35 fighter jet exceeded the would-be cost of sending humans to Mars.