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TIL whales are getting sun burns due to a weakened ozone layer

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6gLQ TIL That the Dominican Republic offered to take 100,000 Jews in 1938. Only 645 made it and each Jew was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse.
lDb7 TIL Komodo dragons can give virgin births, but it’s not a genetic clone of the mother.
AxDo TIL in 2005, a German television show was produced in which twelve male competitors donated their sperm to be sent to a lab in Cologne. At the lab, three doctors then observed the sperm as they “raced” toward an egg. The man with the fastest sperm won a new red Porsche.
49EJ TIL that natural vaginal lubrication is mostly made of blood plasma.
OGEj6 TIL the US's primary defense against ICBMs has a success rate of just over 50%