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TIL that the founder or Texas Roadhouse Restaurants, W. Kent Taylor, has no ties at all to the state of Texas and originally had dreams of opening a Colorado-themed eatery.

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nmZr TIL that pre-ejaculatory fluid (“Pre-cum”) is released from a different part of the anatomy of the penis (than sperm) and is meant to lower the acidity in the vagina before ejaculation and most studies are in agreement that it CANNOT get someone pregnant.
Y5gd TIL Alexander Hamilton’s son was a lawyer who represented a woman divorcing Aaron Burr, 30 years after Burr famously killed his father in a duel.
WkwR8 TIL "Anamnesis" is the idea that humans possess innate knowledge and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. The process of incarnation is described in Neoplatonism as a trauma that causes the soul to forget its experiences (and often its divine origins as well).
9YNaM TIL that sometime in 1981, President Ronald Reagan ordered an SR-71 to spy on a secret North Korean conference, not because there was anything to learn, but because the repeated sonic booms would interrupt the conference and there wasn’t a weapon on earth which could shoot the craft down.
VBEj0 TIL that it was common medical practice to inject urine in a frog as a pregnancy test.