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TIL people wear pants because of horses. Mounted armies wearing pants were more effective than those wearing robes

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R75Mj TIL Some 700,000 California women become pregnant each year, and over half of those pregnancies are unintended
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x6k5b TIL after the death of Larry Hillblom on 1995, several children and their mothers from across South East Asia claimed he was their father. As no DNA from Larry was available due to him dying in a plane crash, the probate court searched for claimants with shared DNA
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R7mPw TIL that Patrick Stewart invented photo negative casting so he could play Othello as he wasn't allowed to wear blackface