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TIL Aristotle taught that women need to come to orgasm in order to produce a child

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0QXy TIL a boy was allowed to change his own name when he was 8 years old. Today, he is Dr. Loki Skylizard.
N786N TIL researchers found increasing your daily coffee consumption lowers your risk of Type 2 Diabetes by 11%. Surprisingly, they also found cutting your coffee consumption by one cup can increase your Diabetes risk 17%.
6eYY TIL Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing Bill Clinton
robe TIL Nancy Astor told Winston Churchill “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,” to which he responded, “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
NXA9E TIL that for training purposes and to avoid the risk of creating political tensions with actual countries, the U.S. Army has created over 20 incredibly detailed and intricate fictional nations, all including maps, flags, populations, etc. Each one is the "counterpart" of an actual nation.