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TIL cats can get pregnant by multiple fathers simultaneously. This is how kittens from the same litter can look so different.

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QNLXe TIL about Magdalene Laundries, Irish asylums where women (who were disabled, sex workers, "too beautiful," or any number of things) were held and required to clean clothes daily. Some never left, as they had no family outside to vouch for them.
yQnlM TIL In 2010, Traffic jam in china lasted for more than 10 days...
d8mZr TIL that the human anus is extremely person-specific just as fingerprint is, and smart toilets of the future could identify users by anus alone.
7Jo7 TIL a “micromort” is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries. For example, going skydiving is 9 micromorts, meaning that there is a 9/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip.
b6oJ9 TIL Whale foreskin is used to make leather goods.