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TIL It was legal to perform Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the United States up until 1997.

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nWm0d TIL - Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy (PENIS), also sometimes called Cross Polarisation (CP), is a nuclear magnetic resonance technique invented by Michael Gibby and Alexander Pines while they were graduate students
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epAE4 TIL that George Harrison visited his sister in a small U.S. town in 1963. At the time, he was famous in England, but unknown in the U.S.
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