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TIL Indian man sued his parents for giving birth to him.

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vj6r TIL pig rectum MIGHT be used in some restaurants as calamari. NPR did a blind taste test and could not tell the difference.
rR7Gw TIL after portraying a teacher who goes on to be president of Ukraine on T.V., actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy would then go on to become president of Ukraine.
Gr74 TIL the population of the United States quadrupled between 1820 and 1870
X07PE TIL that in order to obtain silk the silk worm is boiled or gassed inside their cocoons. 6,600 cocoons equaling 1 kilo of silk.
vZ4L TIL that there is a rare sleeping disorder called Kleine–Levin syndrome that causes people to sleep for weeks at a time waking only to eat or go to the bathroom