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TIL Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except for Thailand

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neADB TIL: A Korean programmer made a ransomware program as a joke, requiring the victim to get a high score in the Japanese bullet hell shooter "Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object" on the highest difficulty to get their files back.
ep4Ob TIL Loyalist artist Gilbert Stuart returned to America after the Revolution for one reason only: To paint a portrait of George Washington he could make copies and money from.
LgEm TIL that in the 1950s a scientist at Tulane University discovered the “pleasure centers” of the brain by zapping it with electricity and gave a woman a 30-minute orgasm.
5YOGn TIL in 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two heads of the Black Panther Party, were killed in their sleep by Chicago Police. It was described as a gunfight, but 99% of bullets were found to have been shot from the police, & fake bullet holes from the inside were found to have been planted by police
1l64 TIL that in France, only croissants made with 100% pure butter can be straight under culinary law. All others have to be shaped differently.