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TIL Bill Gates got knighted by the Queen.

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GAD7Q TIL Raccoons can make more than 200 different sounds
l7akG TIL That women on the Isle of Man gained the right to vote in 1881 - 37 years before women in the United Kingdom gained the same right
Gd94 TIL that “slut shaming” is mostly performed by women. According to the New York Times, “studies have shown that the more attractive an adolescent girl or woman is, the more likely she is to become a target for indirect aggression from her female peers”.
LkZAV TIL of the Great bison belt. A tract of grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico around 9000 BCE, which allowed the bison to outlive other Ice Age animals and let the animal become the staple food of the Plains Paleo-Indians
4XVkb TIL Russia has been stripped of 51 Olympic medals due to doping violations , 1/3 of the global total.