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TIL that clinical trials for injectable male birth control have started in Melbourne, Australia.

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L7lv TIL TWA Flight 541 was hijacked in 1978 by the daughter of a woman who was killed while hijacking a helicopter to free a federal prisoner, who was in prison for hijacking a TWA flight in 1972.
X4Gr TIL in 2001, members of PETA had just left an anti-hunt protest when they hit a deer. They informed the NJ Division of Fish and and Wildlife that they would sue for damages and injuries since it was a result of the deer management program, which included, increasing the deer population.
EgkjX TIL natural gas doesn’t have an odor, the distinctive smell is an additive for safety
L1RZ TIL there will be a comet passing Earth in Oct-Nov 2013 that may be bright enough to see in the daylight with the naked eye!
Z8br4 TIL when Spanish missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan. The local Japanese people initially assumed that the he was buddhist monk from India and that Christianity was a new Buddhism sect.