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TIL in 2013 a female professor gave a public lecture on men’s issues at the University of Ottawa. She was repeatedly interrupted by a group of about 30 students shouting and blasting horns. The talk was moved to another room, but somebody pulled the fire alarm, which effectively shut it down.

a61J TIL that it’s illegal to be fat in Japan
gOM9 TIL that Sati, a practice where a widowed woman would immolate herself on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre, still exist in rural parts of India.
N75kQ TIL: That anesthesiologists, neuroscientists and researchers dont really know how anesthesia works.
j6bxa TIL on the seabed between Catalina Island and the mainland lies barrels of DDT.
nkZB TIL: Gordon (sesame street) has been played by the same actor since 1974