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TIL about Malone Mukwende. He is actively creating a free medical handbook on skin conditions for POC to bridge the gap of exclusively caucasian examples of various skin afflictions in his medical textbooks.

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lo7Br TIL of Emad Salem, the FBI informant involved in the first WTC bombing whose offers to thwart the bombing was ignored by his FBI handlers
VBpXk TIL in 1985 the Supreme Court ruled that Long Island is not an Island, but a Peninsula!
EMRV TIL That Emma Watson is set to appear topless in her next movie, ‘Regression’, which releases on August 15, 2015.
6EJlZ TIL the internet's first uploaded image was of the joke band Les Horribles Cernettes (LHC), an all-girl group comprised of girlfriends & assistants of CERN employees. One chorus went "You never spend your nights with me / You don't go out with other girls either / You only love... your collider"
rNey1 TIL 104 elevators operate in the Willis Tower, which require 80 miles of elevator cable. This includes 16 double-decker elevators. Some of the elevators are among the fastest in the world, capable of speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute (18 mph).