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TIL: “In France, nearly 96% of high schools…have condom vending machines”

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J8gB TIL Blackbeard was only an active pirate for two years
4klA5 TIL at 58 that Pearl Jam’s Alive describes my own experience at 14—when my mom told me the man I thought was my father… wasn’t. Life changing experience, and here I heard this song countless times over the years.
ZpyyY TIL that if you were able to fold a sheet of paper in half, over and over, after 103 folds that piece of paper would larger than the whole observable universe.
9lZG TIL a Japanese fishing boat sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a live cow from 30,000 feet.
1apmD TIL that not all Norse soldiers who die in battle go to Odin’s hall, Valhalla. Half go to Freyja’s field, Fólkvangr, which has a different hall: Sessrúmnir. Freyja rides a chariot pulled by two cats and occasionally rides her boar, Hildisvíni (who is actually her protégé Óttar, disguised).