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TIL Men pay about $15,000 more for auto insurance over their lifetimes than women do

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GPKG TIL a man named Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing a map of an imaginary world for over 50 years. He draws from a deck of cards each morning to decide the fate of his hand-drawn world, which is over 2000 square feet in size.
x6V4k TIL In 1967, Detroit Tiger Mikey Lolich was called to active duty with the National Guard in response to the ongoing Detroit Riots. He then received death threats for his role in quelling the riot. The FBI subsequently placed a team of snipers on the roof of Tiger Stadium during his next two starts.
dyW9 TIL University of California at Davis is one of the largest breeders and patent holders of strawberry varieties in the world
M77Gb TIL that cancer in heart cells is extremely rare, or unlikely to occur due to the cell division mechanism in a heart's muscle cells
OG6bX TIL Atum/Atem/Atoum/Tem (to complete or to finish) in Egyptian mythology created the sibling deity couple Shu (peace, lions, air and wind) and Tefnut (moisture, moist air, dew, rain) through various means: spitting them out of his mouth, masturbation or "made union with his shadow"