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TIL: Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined

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mxGMY TIL of the Ben & Jerry's-inspired porn parody series called "Ben & Cherry's". Ben & Jerry's sued for trademark infringement, and a federal judge ordered 10 Ben & Cherry's porn titles removed, including "Boston Cream Thighs" & "Peanut Butter D-Cups".
LQMKP TIL that the Greeks had a word for something like gaslighting: eristic arguments.
voR TIL that Sylvia Plath’s husband burned her last journal upon her death, but agreed that her unpublished papers and journals may be released in 2013.
9wA1Q TIL the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse, was Queen of France for 20 minutes, the time between Charles X signing his abdication in favor of her husband and her husband, Louis Antoine, signing his abdication in favor of his nephew. Despite that, Louis Philippe became king.
DjJV TIL the common banana doesn’t have seeds because it has 3 copies of DNA. An odd number doesn’t split evenly when forming progeny, so the result is a seedless fruit. Seedless watermelon, grapes, etc also have an odd number of copies of DNA.