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TIL Zipper entrapment is the most common cause of penile trauma in adults, with roughly around 2000 cases yearly.

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46Xo TIL Los Angeles has an abandoned subway system..
O76R TIL agoraphobic Janet Faal left her Crawley, UK, home for only the third time in 10 years in April 2015, only to fall into an open manhole, break her nose and fracture her leg.
4O05 TIL that in the 80s tens of thousands of americans were infected with HIV by drugs that the manufacturers knew were tainted, but continued selling anyway, and that no one was ever criminally charged for it.
VMvv4 TIL that the most expensive city for a date night (dinner for two, bottle of wine, two cinema tickets, taxi back home) is Oslo, Norway, at $159, while the cheapest is Ankara, Turkey, at $36
geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.