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TIL that 22% of men and 30% of women in Eastern Congo report being victims of conflict-related sexual violence, and that 97% of the NGOs working in that field don’t even mention male victims in any of their literature.

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YpYZ7 TIL: The reason why pigs are the enemy of birds in Angry Birds is because at the time the game was being designed, the swine flu epidemic was in the news.
OG0vR TIL: Divers searching for a sunken World War II-era aircraft, instead came across a 15 by 15-foot section of the Challenger Space Shuttle 37 years after it exploded off the Florida coast. After the explosion, the salvage effort had recovered 47% of the shuttle.
vbK TIL Pat Summit, former University of Tennessee Women’s Basketball Coach, had a student-athlete graduation rate of 100%. She coached for 38 years.
J1PnV TIL about Basil Zaharoff a 19th and early 20th century arms dealer, who is believed to have inspired the James Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
woexP TIL of the mud dauber, a family of wasps that creates nest out of dried mud. 176 people were killed in a plane crash believed to have been caused by a nest in a pitot tube, leading to faulty speed readings