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TIL apparently you can use blood on a urine pregnancy test and get accurate results

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9Zbp TIL Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary company, successfully quelled civil war in Sierra Leone. The United Nations pressured Sierra Leone’s government to replace them with peacekeepers. Civil War quickly broke out again upon EO’s dismissal.
Oo77 TIL that a 10th-century Arab explorer in Russia witnessed a Viking funeral rite in which a slave girl had sex with each of the tribe’s warriors before they ritualistically sacrificed her to serve their fallen chieftain in the afterlife.
7r55M TIL the phrase "splice the mainbrace" was originally an order given on naval vessels describing a tedious and critically important emergency repair, but eventually it became a euphemistic order for giving an extra serving of grog or rum to sailors.
4kNQw TIL of John Dixwell who was one of the regicides who carried out the execution of King Charles I. Dixwell’s suspicions of the sham pardon later offered to him were proved correct, when a death warrant was issued. He would evade capture, dying in his 80’s in Connecticut.
MeRVK TIL that millennials in the ages of 18-34 are more likely to live with their parents instead of a spouse/partner - the first time this has occurred since record-keeping began in the 1880s