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TIL Almost 50% of Detroit’s remaining 700,000 residents are functionally illiterate; 60% of the children live in poverty (25 facts)

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ljXN TIL There was an all female Rock Band name ‘Rockbitch’ which was infamous for throwing 'Golden Condoms’ at their audience and whoever got it, male or female, was taken backstage to have sex with band members. [NSFW]
7rNYM TIL that when we eat something sweet and feel that momentary bit of pain at the back of the jaw, its because of the largest salivary gland (Parotid gland) going into overdrive to help with digestion.
PYVMg TIL Rapper Joey Bada$$ found the instrumental for his song Christ Conscience by looking up "joey bada$$ type beat" on youtube.
GYjy1 TIL that Hiram Maxim took out ads in the local paper to warn his neighbours in West Norwood on the days he was planning to test-fire his prototype machine gun in the back garden
1GkD TIL that all the domestic cattle today descended from a single group of 80 Aurochs (a type of cattle hunted to extinction by early humans).