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TIL the 9 months of pregnancy does not begin at conception. It begins on the first day of a woman’s last menstrual period.

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ew8g TIL Earth’s rotation is slowing at a rate of approximately 17 milliseconds a century, and the length of a day for the dinosaurs was closer to 22 hours.
Y7x5x TIL Bruce Springsteen did not pay his taxes until he was put on the cover of Time Magazine in 1975. He then spent the next few years paying off his taxes, leaving him with only $20,000 on his 30th birthday despite multiple best-selling records and tours.
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