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TIL that thousands of women have had and are having unconsensual pelvic exams performed on them while under anesthesia, and that it’s still legal in over half of the U.S.

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nWEG TIL that in J.J. Abram’s 2009 Star Trek, R2-D2 can be seen floating in the debris field of the starships destroyed by Nero.
7QxO TIL a young Elvis Presley was told to “stick to driving a truck” at a failed audition in 1954. 2 years later he was a worldwide superstar.
8eM6X TIL of Daniel Sickles. He shot the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight for sleeping with his wife, and was the first person acquitted under the insanity defense. Later he was appointed a Union general, and lost his leg disobeying orders. He regularly claimed to be 6 years younger than he was.
NlvE TIL If you see a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb, you’re supposed to stick your arm out and hold your thumb over the cloud. If the cloud is bigger than your thumb you are in the radiation zone and should evacuate.
XEZ86 TIL that reindeer and caribou are the same animal