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TIL that women on birth control pills blink 32% more often than other women.

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yVgZ8 TIL that Jean-Paul Sartre was in an Ethical Non-Monogamous and open relationship with the same woman (Simone de Beauvoir) from his 24th year of age to his death at the age of 74 ( ~50 years )
aya0 TIL there are approximately the same number of calories in a pound of spinach as there are in two Oreos.
E1bm0 TIL that Mississippi had no official state flag from 1904 to 2001 due to a legislative oversight. In 1906, Mississippi repealed all general laws that were not reenacted by the new code. The flag statute was inadvertently omitted.
A5kB TIL that people vomit from motion sickness because the only other thing that can cause a sensory mismatch like motion sickness is a neurotoxin, so the brain tries to get rid of that “poison” the only way it knows how: by vomiting.
W7KL TIL two people purchased backstage tickets to a Justin Bieber concert just to tell him his parents divorce was his fault. (Fact 71)