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TIL that maggot therapy is a medical practice used to clean wounds and promote healing by using live maggots to eat dead tissue

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l8eG TIL that Dr. John Rock, the creator of the birth control pill, was a devout Catholic and invented the pill to compliment the Calendar method of contraception.
oB5Yo TIL Heteropaternal Superfecundation is referred to as a form of twinning where genetically the twins are half siblings or they have different fathers. In 2013, a New Jersey woman found out her twin daughters have different Daddy thru DNA test when she sought for child support on her partner.
e6o6 TIL that 2013 is the first year in recorded history where consumption of fish has surpassed beef
e0aDD TIL that 78% of NFL players are broke within 2 years of retirement, usually due to joblessness or divorce. About 60% of former NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement.
j6d7X TIL that the Thoroughbred racehorse Equipoise (1928–1938), mentioned in the song "Fugue for Tinhorns" from the 1950 musical 'Guys and Dolls', was a real-life stakes winner. While "Epitaph" is fictional, the American Quarter Horse stallion and racehorse Go Man Go was a great-grandson of Equipoise.