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TIL Wonder Woman was named a UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls in 2016. However, due to her being an overtly sexualized scantily clad “large breasted white woman of impossible proportions” critics dismissed the character as not being a worthy role model for women.

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nOoG TIL that Castration prevents male pattern baldness if done before the hair is lost
xDb TIL that Huntington, West Virginia, a city of 50,000, has more pizza places than there are gyms in the entire state.
nWxM7 TIL that in Clifton, Arizona there is an old jail which was dug into the side of a cliff. The guy who built it was the first prisoner after going out and celebrating the opening and getting arrested for shooting his guns in the air at the bar.
4l5J TIL Danielle Lierow is a girl who was severely neglected since birth, left in a dark room as a toddler, and never learned how to talk, eat, or hold a doll. She was adopted into a loving home in 2007 and in 2014 was 15 years old in high school and able to say “I love you” to her adoptive father.
KOpR6 TIL in the Sellafield nuclear power plant there is an industrial freezer packed with an expanding mountain of radioactive seagulls that were shot by snipers employed by the plant