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TIL Male babies get morning wood in utero

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0dryR TIL about Mehmet Ali Ağca. Dude murdered a journalist and shot Pope John Paul II, got released from prison, then went to the Vatican and asked to meet Pope Francis and write a book with Dan Brown.
ne8G9 TIL: You are less likely to die during an economic depression. This is mostly attributed to cleaner air, reduced traffic, and fewer dollars spent on vices like tobacco and alcohol.
rdgo TIL Anders Celsius originally created the temperature scale with 100 degrees as freezing and 0 degrees as boiling. Carl Linnaeus, another scientist, waited until he died to change the scale to what it is today.
VMXOD TIL that drug dealers are legally required to pay a "drug tax" on their illegal contraband by buying a Drug Tax Stamp from the Department of Revenue
p8nJN TIL A church choir had a practice session starting at 7:25pm one evening in 1950, and by 7:27pm the building exploded. No one was killed as they were all running late.