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TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypodermic penis, and release his sperm into her body cavity.

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MelaB TIL when Japan's first railway was introduced, the USA, France, and the UK bid to build the system, with the UK winning. The railways they set up were left-side running, and that was later adopted by Japanese cars. Today, Japan is one of the only non-Commonwealth countries with left-side driving
JK1m TIL North Dakota ranks #1 in the U.S. in beer consumption per capita with an average adult drinking 45.8 gallons of beer per year.
mxooM TIL that Louis Braille (the inventor of Braille) is buried in his home which now is a museum, but his hands were cut off at the wrists and buried in his childhood hometown
e1a6 TIL The longest ever personality study found no correlation between people’s personalities at age 14 and age 77
KOVZG TIL of Kathleen Wyatt who, despite being separated for 25 years and divorced from her ex husband for 20 years, was given leave by the UK Supreme Court to sue him for a £1.9m divorce settlement.