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TIL that the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has fathered 100+ children in 12 countries via sperm donation.

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E1lp TIL that Mark Calaway aka The Undertaker established The Zeus Compton Calaway Save the Animals fund to help pay for lifesaving treatments for large-breed dogs.
beWN TIL the “Screwdriver” cocktail got its name from American petroleum engineers in Saudi Arabia who secretly added vodka to small cans of orange juice and stirred the mixture with their screwdrivers.
MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.
78OQx TIL the next periodical emergence of the 13- and 17-year cicada broods is 2024. The last time these insects co-emerged was 221 years ago while Thomas Jefferson was president.
nWBXo TIL that Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, which is a small town to the north of Paris. He continued to paint up until his death in 1890. He also was admitted to the Asylum of Saint Paul in Saint-Rémy because of severe mental illness.