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TIL Doctors have to warn women not to put glitter in their vaginas.

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lLgV TIL in 2012 a charity dropped off boxes in a remote African village containing Xoom tablets with no instructions. Within 4 minutes a child turned one on. Within 5 days, kids were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within 2 weeks they were singing ABC songs. Within 5 months they had hacked Android.
ADVGx TIL that the world's highest mountain Mt. Everest is littered with frozen corpses because it's too dangerous and expensive to get them down. One such corpse named "Green Boots", has long been used as a landmark to help climbers travel up the mountain
k4Y1 TIL George Washington was within scope of a British sniper. The marksman thought it would be dishonorable to shoot a man in the back, and didn’t fire.
7vm7 TIL India is building a fence around Bangladesh
8epeG TIL that the first-ever internet meme was the Dancing Baby in 1996