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TIL over 30% of one-night stands actually leads to a long-term relationship.

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GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.
Zp0YY TIL Sperm counts worldwide have plummeted 62% in under 50 years and the rate of decrease appears to be accelerating
96BB TIL at age 14 Oprah Winfrey gave birth to a boy who died shortly after
e0Oo5 TIL that the blanket toss game that exists in schools as the parachute game was originally used by native Alaskan hunters. These hunters would sit on an animal skin and be tossed into the air to spot game and whales out at sea to hunt.
OlR4 TIL that in Classical Athens, the citizens could vote each year to banish any person who was growing too powerful, as a threat to democracy. This process was called Ostracism.