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TIL hosting the 2006 World Cup caused Germany to experience baby boom. Nine months after the football competition, birthrate in Germany is up to 30% higher compared with the same period in the year before.

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OG9ER TIL Your brain alone burns 400-500 calories each day
L4Om TIL that there is a scientific measurement for the ‘risk of death’ of any action: the micromort. If an activity is rated as one micromort, you would have a one in a million chance of dying while doing it. Running a marathon is ~7 micromorts, sky diving 10, and climbing Mount Everest 40,000!
ZYe4 TIL In 1948 the United States Air-force tested the XF-85 Goblin, a jet fighter designed to be deployed and retrieved from a bomber’s bomb-bay. The bomber could carry a maximum of 4 XF-85s, turning it into a “Flying Aircraft Carrier”.
rRg8W TIL in the early 20th century, getting drunk and riding a pig was considered one of the most extreme sports known to man.
94Dm TIL the vibrator was “the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron.”