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TIL a recent poll showed that most newlyweds did not have sex on their wedding night

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pYEOp TIL of Trofim Lysenko, an influential Soviet scientist who rejected genetics in favor of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas. These ideas led to catastrophic famines in the Soviet Union that killed millions of people, and was also adapted in China to similarly calamitous results.
epQ64 TIL in 2023 a 35-year-old woman died from water intoxication after drinking just 64 ounces of water (about 1.9L) in roughly 20 minutes, which caused her brain to suffer severe swelling. She drank it while on vacation with her family because she started to feel very lightheaded & extremely thirsty.
v1dOr TIL that in the 1980's if you were stuck in a Nintendo game you could call their hotline and get a "pro" to help and talk you through it
woOKY TIL of "Historia Piscium," a book about fishes published in 1686 by the Royal Society. The book sold so poorly that the Society reneged on funding Isaac Newton's "Principia". Clerk Edmund Halley funded Principia himself; the Society later paid him with unsold copies of Historia
x6La1 TIL that legendary Germs/Nirvana/Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear was an extra/dancer in Prince's music video for Raspberry Beret