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TIL that a lovestruck 13 year old girl of Houston, Texas attempted to drive all the way(with her mothers car) to her 12 year old lover she met in Xbox Live, who just happened to live in Kentucky. She was stopped at Tenesssee before she could get to her “boyfriend’s” place.

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wLV06 TIL: Viagra was discovered by accident. The drug (Sildenafil) was on trial as a blood pressure lowering medication but patients started reporting these raging boners as a side effect. However, they didn’t wanna return the samples and wanted to keep taking them you know, for science.
X0QLD TIL that during World War II, Qantas operated a series of flights called "The Double Sunrise" from Australia to Sri Lanka that took up to 33 hours. The name came from the fact that passengers and crew would literally see two sunrises on the westbound journey across the Indian Ocean.
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xVQNb TIL Physical attractiveness has a significant influence on judges sentencing. The more unattractive the criminal, the higher the sentence. Results of three studies show a minimum increase of 119.25% and a maximum increase of 304.88%.
y0ee TIL George Washington is considered by most historians to have been a bad public speaker.