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TIL Facial disfigurements creep us out, because our subconsciousness scans the disfigurement as a potential disease.

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VZQD TIL that there is a ritual in Malawi called Sexual Cleansing which involves young girls after their first mensuration cycle to have sex with a community chosen man in order to get accepted by the community. This also is the reason of high HIV/AIDS rate there.
D1l1r TIL Eddie Murphy has a daughter with former Spice Girl Melanie Brown. Murphy had initially denied it was his child until a DNA test proved he was the father.
9wLkM TIL about the First Families of Virginia which include 6 US presidents from Washington to Carter, Robert E. Lee, and Elvis Presley, among many others.
RJm1 TIL that in 1953 Iranian coup the US and UK put a General in charge that had once tried to build a pro Nazi government in Iran and had been arrested as such. He replaced a democratically elected government.
d84nB TIL MI6 thought a report submitted by a false agent regarding the Iraqi Chemical Weapons Program was legitimate, until they realized it bore a striking resemblance to aspects of the movie "The Rock"