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TIL Watermelons originated in a desert.

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Br6mb TIL in 1986, a large male gorilla named Jambo stood between a five-year-old boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, after the boy fell into the gorilla exhibit and lost consciousness.
DBJY TIL A new survey of nearly 20,000 people who married between 2005 and 2012 finds that Cupid’s arrow flies as true for online daters as it does for partners who meet through more traditional venues.
N7kGb TIL pornography involving characters with the appearance of minors is proctected by the First Amendment, as long as the actors themselves are of legal age.
KO7e4 TIL in the 1970’s the United States government forcibly sterilized as many as 70,000 Native American women, often without consent or knowledge.
BjVy TIL that in 1976 during filming of an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man, the crew discovered the mummified corpse of Elmer McCurdy, an Oklahoma outlaw being used used as fun-house prop