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TIL the Yugoslavian Civil War can trace its origin to a farmer masturbating while on the job.

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ne1EG TIL that in 2018, a woman in San Diego gave birth to a premature baby weighing only 8.6 ounces with a gestational age of only 23 weeks and 3 days. The baby is now perfectly healthy, making her the lightest birth-weight baby to ever survive.
m1RlP TIL that there is a Town in Minnesota called Little Canada and the Canadian Flag is even displayed in council chambers.
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QNvre TIL that, energizer has a pink buzzy as a mascot in NA.
VMxbG TIL mathematician Milutin Milanković came up with what is now known as the Milanković theory of ice ages in part thanks to having a lot of free time. At the start of WW1 he was imprisoned in Budapest with the right to work for four years.