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TIL that the average male will produce roughly 525 billion sperm cells over a lifetime. That's around five times the number of people who have ever lived.

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xVJgo TIL "Catch It, Bin It, Kill It". This slogan appeared in 2007 in a goverenment campaign to promote good respiratory and helath hygiene.
M8xW TIL Finland and Sweden are the only countries in the world that have earned a medal at every Olympic game since 1908.
xBBB TIL 14-year-old kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck, while being held captive, Googled himself and found the website his parents set up for his search. He left an anonymous message there – “How long are you planning to look for your son?” – but no one knew he had been the author until after his rescue.
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