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TIL of Чадоград, a "city" where everything is run by kids. Each visiting kid is given training by "doctors", can learn how to operate a plane, learn journalism, and even driving lessons. Also exists a "bank" among other buildings to prepare kids for the real world.

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WQKA TIL there is a tiger named Kenny who is the only known tiger to have downs syndrome
P1MJO TIL of Old Whitey, a saponified corpse floating about the engine room of the SS Kamloops sunk off Isle Royale, Lake Superior, in 1927. Unidentified to today, he follows divers around as they explore her wreck. Superior it's said never gives up her dead.
WgpL TIL Most Iranian women don’t wear niqabs. The government once considered them to be a “badge of backwardness.”
MQ07 TIL that 74% of men and 64% of women in the U.S. are obese or overweight, according to the National Institutes of Health
7rgor TIL An elephant's penis is not only 6 feet long, but prehensile. A male elephant can use his penis to swat flies, scratch his belly, to balance like a third leg, and even to grasp onto things. It even does all the work during intercourse.