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TIL you can actually donate your voice to help people with speech impairments so they can select a vocal identity of their own

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E4Np TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.
nYmo TIL that it takes approximately 4 litres of water to produce a 1 litre plastic bottle of water
LN00 TIL there is a project called “A Call in the Night” that will call you once a week after 2am and connect you to a random person to discuss your dreams.
Joll TIL female elephants are known to masturbate one another with their trunks (observed only in captivity)
LkQ9P TIL that in 2006 Michael Vick started a charity for at-risk youth. The charity spent $20,000 of its budget on programs for kids, paid $97,000 to a friend of Vick's who acted as the foundation's "fundraiser" and gave the remaining $50,000 in its bank account to Vick's financial adviser.