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TIL: American companies were THE number one entities that helped Germany rearm them selves after WWI, illegally.

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YXRG TIL that some women in Mauritania force-feed their daughters because obesity for women is idealized in the country.
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9JJD TIL that a bug researcher named Schmidt volunteered to be stung by insects, no matter the pain, and created the “Schmidt Sting Pain Index” even describing the sensations much like a wine taster
b410 TIL the military refers to every time zone using a letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet. Therefore, in Honolulu, it is always “Whiskey time”.
KWyw TIL In 1977 a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a malaria cure. 38 years later, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.