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TIL that women are 2x as likely as men to have insomnia

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epga6 TIL that, during the 1994 World Cup, the BBC issued a public apology after its pundit said during the match between Romania and Argentina that "The Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that", a day after Colombian defender Andres Escobar was shot and killed
N7N9E TIL In 1991, the Chinese government made developing e-bikes an official technology goal. Electric bike sales went from 150,000 in 1999 to 21 million in 2007, a growth in sales that is unmatched by any other mode of transportation in China
VN90 TIL Classical composers Bach and Handel were both blinded by the same surgeon
9Y9Gp TIL that NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes Sherlock Holmes books
eG64 TIL that the German word for birth control pills is antibabypille.