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TIL about Movember. A charity campaign dedicated to raise awareness for men's risk of prostate & testicular cancer along with mental health awareness and suicide prevention.

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kMoB China is the most irreligious country on Earth. As of 2012, a whopping 87.4% of residents claim no interest or relevance in religion whatsoever.
47GR TIL that Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius, once gathered all the little and disabled people he could find and forced them to fight to the death with little more than meat cleavers.
yBPp TIL that the winter crew of Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station watches The Thing (1982) on the first day of Winter, every year.
xVMN5 TIL the "Betsy Ross" of the Iowa flag, Dixie Cornell Gebhardt, was born "Jim Dick" Cornell. Named after a horse owned by her father. Mercifully, her mother called her 'Dixie'.
16B0V TIL Malo kingi or the common kingslayer is an Australian Irukandji jellyfish named after Robert King - an American tourist killed by one of them in 2002. They are the smallest jellyfish in the world, the size of a thumbnail and hospitalise 50-100 people each year. Their venom causes haemorrhaging.