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TIL heat is measurably more unpleasant than coldness

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b9AJQ TIL that in 2001, in an attempt to mitigate the HIV and AIDS pаndemic, King Mswati III of Eswatini (Africa's only absolute monarch) banned sexual relations for girls under 18 for a 5-year period. 2 months later, he chose a 17 year-old to become his 13th wife. He was fined a cow, which he duly paid
yQjv TIL that in order to get around the constitutional limits on copyright the MPAA president proposed to make it last “forever minus one day”
e0ED TIL the dashed lines on highways are 10 feet long, and the spaces are 30 feet long.
E1kv7 TIL that if the US in 1920 were a country now, its real GDP per capita (not national GDP) would be somewhere ranked ~#160 globally, competing with countries like Syria, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, or Afghanistan.
XEe4k TIL Scientists have developed a super strong, flexible Bio-glue for wound healing without causing toxicity It has been inspired by an adhesive material (glue) secreted by slugs that sticks to biological tissues.