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TIL the 4B movement of millennial South Korean women seeks to create an online and offline world devoid of men, with the women refusing to engage in heterosexual dating, marriage, or childbirth. It was founded in response to extreme harassment of women in Korean society

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9wYP7 TIL cheetahs were at one point so close to extinction, their genetic diversity has become too low for their immune system to recognize a "nonself". Skin grafts exchanged between unrelated cheetahs are accepted as if they were clones or identical twins.
d8njd TIL of a non-theistic religion called the Church of Body Modification which practises piercing, scarification, plastic surgery, firewalking, corsetry and fasting in order to live a spiritually complete life
w8aW TIL Pocahontas was later known as Rebecca Rolfe and her descendants include the wealthy First Families of Virginia and Nancy Reagan
LQvVp TIL the first AI generated image was created in the 1970s
gD1L TIL an illegally imported DVD of Titanic helped North Korean defector Yeonmi Park realize the oppressive nature of the North Korean government and gave her “a taste of freedom”