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TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.

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GAjj TIL The Catholic church has taken the stance that neither evolution, nor the big bang, are contrary to Christian beliefs.
JAdQ TIL of Adrian Schoolcraft, ex NYPD officer who recorded corruption,wrongdoings and police abuse in the NYPD. He submitted it to investigators and ended up reassigned to a desk job, got abducted from his house and thrown in a psychiatric facility against his will and fired. His family got the bill.
9wnr6 TIL George Mallory, the famous mountaineer who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, his body found 75 years later. It was remarkably preserved & in a state of "almost perfect preservation" due to the cold, but his camera was never found, leaving the mystery of whether he reached the summit unsolved
D1WRY TIL of the Office of the Future in Dubai, the first commercial building in the world to be 3D printed
D1wnV TIL doctors were able to restore a blind man's vision with a surgery involving bionic eyes. He had been blind for 40 years.