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TIL Sushruta, the first known plastic surgeon specialized in rhinoplasty i.e. nose reconstruction. This was important in ancient India as convicted criminals and women accused of adultry had their noses amputated as a mark of untrustworthiness. Rhinoplasty offered them a chance to escape the stigma.

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6l78 TIL the community of LexPark in Lexington, Kentucky has instated an annual “Food for Fines” program - a month long food drive that allows people to at least partially pay their parking tickets in canned food, which is then donated directly to area food banks that help feed the needy
9ngm TIL the Khmer Rouge killed ~25% of Cambodia’s populace by making everyone work 12 hours daily on farms. Intellectuals were killed. Schools, religion, freedom to travel, money, factories, & hospitals were eliminated. The K.R. exerted control by limiting married couples’ visits & scattering families.
ZZNQ TIL despite writing about witchcraft and other spiritually dark things, J.K. Rowling identifies herself as a Christian, saying she doesn’t “take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion”
DA5Y TIL the abandoned island in SKYFALL actually exists off the coast of Japan.
RDEQ TIL that an estimated 85 people die for every life saved by speed bumps, because while they slow down cars and save pedestrians they also slow down emergency vehicles that might otherwise save people.