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TIL Pornstar Stoya does not use contraception due to allergies and has had 3 abortions while working in the industry

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4X5pJ TIL When a thoroughbred horse gives birth and dies, or doesn't produce milk, their foal is given to a 'Nurse Mare'. It's a horse that has been bred solely to be able to raise the expensive foal. The Nurse Mare's foal is destroyed or sold as meat.
GA7JN TIL Simeon Stylites lived on top of columns for 37 years. Simeon did this as a form of asceticism because when he lived in a cave people kept making pilgrimages to him and asking him religious questions. Ultimately his column life drew in even bigger crowds who would climb ladders to talk to him.
BnVe TIL that Canaan Banana, the first president of Zimbabwe, passed a law in 1982 outlawing jokes about his name
REYa TIL that the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air included a cat.
b91mQ TIL roller coasters use three sets of wheels to keep the trains on the track. Running wheels which are on top of the rails, side friction wheels which are on the side of the rails, and up-stop wheels which are under the rails. This is why inversions and negative-g moments are possible.