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TIL that nearly 9 out 10 Egyptian women aged 15 to 49 have had their clitoris removed as the practice of FGM is still rife in the country

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aDGA TIL that Sean Penn once beat Madonna over the head with a baseball bat, shot at a paparazzi, and hung another paparazzi by his ankles from a ninth-floor balcony
nwbr TIL all the McDonalds in Argentina were forced to sell the Big Mac at an artificially low price to hide inflation, and to manipulate the country’s performance on the Big Mac index
QN87E TIL Michael Shaara's book The Killer Angels, 1975 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the basis for the 1993 movie Gettysburg, reached the top of the NYT best seller list twenty years after being published. The Civil War battle novel is considered one of the best historic fictions ever written.
rRx01 TIL during the Gulf War, the U.S. dropped a 6,800 kg BLU-82 bomb to conduct psychological warfare against Iraqi troops. A British SAS unit that witnessed the explosion assumed the U.S. had used a nuclear weapon and radioed back to their headquarters, "Sir, the blokes have just nuked Kuwait!".
dDX9Q TIL The modern Western salute originated in France when knights greeted each other to show friendly intentions by raising their visors to show their faces (according to some modern military manuals, though the history is uncertain and other theories exist)