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TIL that a loving touch causes female cockroaches to make babies faster

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x6Y5 TIL that one of the first documented Internet purchases was a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese from Pizza Hut
vPR44 TIL over 2000 men had monkey testicles transplanted in them to halt or reverse their aging.
gMmVX TIL the Daughters of the Confederacy has a children's auxiliary. The Children of the Confederacy is dedicated to teaching blood descendants of Confederate soldiers the glory of the Lost Cause and that slave owners were quite nice really.
8epoP TIL in 1913 factory manager Leo Frank was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan based largely on the testimony of janitor Jim Conley, who said Frank paid him to dispose of the body. Frank was lynched by an angry mob. Later investigation strongly suggests that Conley was the real killer all along.
Z8D7v TIL that 66 year-old Marilu Henner, from the old TV show Taxi, has an enlarged part of her brain that provides her with total recall. She can recite details from every day of her life since she was 14.