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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.

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4X6eX TIL The Albuquerque Isotopes (a minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies) named themselves after an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer finds out the Springfield Isotopes were moving to Albuquerque.
rRXay TIL That the medieval romantic trope of a Knight guarding a bridge or gate and forbidding passage unless dueled has a historical basis in the "Pas d'armes" where "any other knight who wished to pass must first fight, or be disgraced."
15jP TIL that a 46 year old man found and attacked a 13 year old kid because the kid killed him too many times in Call of Duty.
r50e TIL: The US is not in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention - they missed their final extended deadline to destroy over 3000 tons of chemical weapons.
ANggx TIL that out of 556 people that have been in space, 339 of them were American. Americans represent 60.97% of all people who have ever been in space.