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TIL Egyptian female protesters underwent virginity checks.

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OoDdg TIL Dinosaurs lived on the earth over a span of 200 million years. That means less time separates us from T-rex than T-rex from early Stegosaurus (an early dinosaur)
6EZEl TIL: Lake Chad in Central Africa is the remnant of an ancient inland sea referred to as Mega Chad
7rvVL TIL that in 1930 on the news bulletin the BBC reported that "There is no news" and instead played piano music
N7mBE TIL The National Spelling Bee titled 8 Co-Champions after running out of words in a 3.5 Hour Final. Starting with 562 Contestants, the Final Eight continued for 20 Straight Rounds of Spelling Words without any errors.
kDQE TIL of United Airlines Flight 811, a regularly scheduled flight between Sydney and San Francisco that on February 24, 1989 had a cargo door fail at 22,000 feet resulting in explosive decompression. 9 passengers were blown out and killed. Two flight attendants were nearly lost as well