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TIL of Emperor Liu Ziye, who granted his sister a harem of 30 young men after she complained about the emperor getting thousands of concubines but she could only have one husband

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8B0P TIL, the german word for Birth control pills is Antibabypillen.
WkWw4 TIL planes traveling west are assigned even-numbered altitudes (to the nearest thousand feet) while planes traveling east are assigned odd-numbered altitudes.
XElYP TIL Michael Burry's autism (Aspergers) enabled him to see patterns in the 2007 housing market data that helped him predict the coming crash. As the data worsened, Burry found that heavy metal music calmed his nerves, something research has more recently shown is ideal for his "Brain Type S."
b6DlQ TIL that a popular brand of stage blood is actually mint-flavored.
J1WLj TIL about a Chinese TV show called “Interviews Before Execution”, which aired from 2006 to 2012, where journalist Ding Yu interviewed convicted murderers just hours before their death sentences, and the program regularly drew up to 40 million viewers in Henan Province