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TIL regular ejaculation decreases your chance of having prostate cancer by up to 36%!

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KYYRG TIL of Moving Day in Quebec. Because of a previous law, the vast majority of leases in Quebec end on or around July 1. In July 2004, approximately 120,000 households moved, corresponding to 4% of the population. Moving companies work around the clock, with charges often being 3x normal rates.
R7xgQ TIL there was a black samurai named Yasuke. He was owned by a Jesuit missionary who gave him to the Daimyo, Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga took an interest in him and made him a samurai, teaching him Japanese and giving him a home and a katana.
XEWV8 TIL that Steve Irwin and his father discovered a species of turtles that can breathe through their cloaca in 1990. It's named after them: Irwin's turtle.
ANKgw TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, had castrated himself with a pair of scissors years earlier
vN74 TIL all of the tin produced in the US is recycled. The United States has neither mined tin since 1993 nor smelted tin since 1989, but it was the largest secondary producer, recycling nearly 14,000 tonnes in 2006.