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TIL, when mosquitos are sucking your blood, their fluid levels need to be regulated. They do this by peeing on you...

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kOWEg TIL The highest recorded fall without a parachute happened in 1972 at 33,333 ft. The victim, Vesna Vulović was in the hospital for 16 months after the fall.
JYxoj TIL Countess Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was convicted of killing 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death. Imprisoned at Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow; for the first 11 years, she was chained in a basement dungeon without a window and only given a candle during meals.
Vlwp TIL blind hiker Bill Irwin completed the Appalachian Trail with the help of his seeing eye dog, after falling ~5,000 times
691a7 TIL 'The Phantom of Heilbronn' was believed to be a female serial killer tied to 40 crimes, six of them murders. However, in 2009, it was discovered that the woman never existed, and her DNA found at crime scenes was just contamination from cotton swabs used for collecting samples.
1bZV TIL that by age 32, Shawn Kemp had fathered 11 children with at least 10 different women.