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TIL that Judith Vaitukaitis developed the chemical technique for the first home pregnancy test after trying to use it to diagnose cancer

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WO19 TIL John Cleese’s ex-wife is now worth more than him due to their divorce settlement
J1e4 TIL Former Monsanto VP is the head of FDA
nWlGG TIL With the 1971 first encounter with the Tasaday people in the Philippines, western anthropologists became suspicious. Living with limited technology and stone tools, they appeared so close to the stone-age stereotype that anthropologists began suspecting them of being an elaborate hoax
4kM7N TIL of the Military-First Girls, a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band, a North Korean girl group. In an interview the club's leader said: "Just like how there are women who like K-pop and Taylor Swift, we just love North Korean culture."
N7nBe TIL There's an island in Liberia where chimps used for scientific experiments are sent to after retirement. This island has kept them segregated from the rest of the country's primates for 50 years. A team of locals are paid to row out and feed them regularly.