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TIL up to a quarter of California smog originates in China

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K0eQ TIL That some women can have orgasms every 30 seconds for 6 to 8 hours a day. (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome)
BgMLd TIL that Marry Mallon ('Typhoid Mary') lived in forced quarantine for the last twenty years of her life in an Island just off of New York ('North Brother Island')
EkaX TIL that Jeanne Calment, person with the longest confirmed lifespan (122) ate a kilogram of chocolate every week.
pdLp TIL - The first Rambo movie “First Blood”, Rambo doesn’t kill anyone. In fact, the only death in the whole movie was an accident. Compared to 69 in “First Blood II”, 132 in “Rambo 3” and 236 in “Rambo”.
06Ay TIL that scientists at Edinburgh University successfully made diamonds from peanut butter using extremely high pressures, even greater than that found at the centre of the earth.