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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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Mejrm TIL The Ukrainian famine—known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”—by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population
gMrj8 TIL about "Stoned Ape Theory" that hypothesizes that psilocybin played an important role in human evolution
jNGQR TIL Men have nipples because we are all female until the Y chromosome kicks in.
OopQY TIL about Stephane Breitwieser, an art thief who stole 1.4 billion dollars worth of art. He never sold any of the art, he was an avid art fan and hung them in his house
v1PmK TIL that after the 1946 Italian Republic referendum, all members of the House of Savoy (House of the king of Italy) were required to leave the country and neither they nor their descendants were to set foot in Italy ever again. The provision was repealed in 2002