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TIL South Carolina used to sterilize women as a condition of receiving welfare.

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PYgwG TIL James Doohan(Soctty from Star Trek) killed 2 snipers on Juno Beach on D-Day.
9Y98r TIL people who quit smoking before the age of 40 may live as long as people who never smoked at all. Researchers found a smoker loses roughly 10 years of life to the habit but regained most of that time if they quit before 40. The benefit is increased the sooner before 40 you quit.
oapo TIL that mathematicians don’t know how big of a sofa you can fit around a corner.
0WKp TIL 70% of adult raccoons carry a parasite that will eat your brains and eyeballs.
loO9N TIL that Kodinhi a small town in Kerala India is reported to have a whopping 250 pairs of twins born to just 2000 families, that’s more than six times the global average and one of the highest twinning rates in the world.