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TIL Egyptian female protesters underwent virginity checks.

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VrGp TIL A Chinese woman drank an entire bottle of cognac when not allowed to bring on airplane; after finishing the bottle, she got barred from boarding due to wild drunken behavior
rNEPy TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.
A50l TIL when news of JFK’s assassination was announced in Alabama public schools (which JFK had forced to desegregate 6 months earlier), many white students cheered.
Wbj9 TIL the saying “When it rains, it pours” originated from ads by the Morton Salt Company, which added magnesium carbonate to their salt so it wouldn’t clog up in rainy weather
LEV9 TIL that 30% of people are iron-deficient. Successful treatment could raise national productivity 20%