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TIL that natural disasters increase fertility rates
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TIL there is a charity that pays $300 to drug addicts if they get sterilized
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TIL a film was made in 2004 that won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Esquire Magazine said “anyone who says he fully understands Primer after seeing it one time is a savant or a liar”. all for $7,000
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TIL of the Hatfield-McCoy family feud, one of the most famous in America. Both families were Confederates, but one of the McCoys fought for the Union. While returning home from the war, he was murdered by a Confederate militia with the prime suspect being a Hatfield.
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TIL of Oskar Speck, a German man who spent seven years kayaking from Europe to Australia. Unfortunately, Australia declared war on Germany shortly before his arrival, and he was arrested on suspicion of espionage as soon as he made landfall.
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TIL Many of the tropes we associate with superheroes were invented by a woman, Baroness Emma Orczy, who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905