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TIL in Germany the name of a child must indicate the gender of the child and not negatively affect the well being of the child.

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ANwQd TIL that despite the participation of more than thirty tropical countries at one point or another, none has ever won a Winter Olympic medal yet.
E1Eao TIL that the show Scrubs has one of the most accurate portrayals of the actual way a hospital runs and all of its medical cases are taken from real life medical cases.
d8oPE TIL that the middle finger was used as an insult since ancient times. It was supposed to be an erect penis and represents a sexual threat, giving a whole new meaning to “Fuck you”.
aly TIL on June 27, 1844, Mormon Founder Joseph Smith was murdered by an angry mob while he sat in a jail cell. The incident arose after Smith ordered the destruction of a news paper that exposed the fact he had married 8 already-married women.
BaBd TIL the oldest know adhesive, dated back to 200,000 BC, is from cave man semen