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TIL Japan was forced to adopt seperate rail/subway cars for women, in an attempt to protect them from constant sexual harassment.

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8X8L TIL In Season 1 of Game of Thrones, the horse heart Daenerys eats was actually made of 3 pounds of gummy bears.
nneo TIL President John F. Kennedy was a methamphetamine addict and suffered from a delusional “psychotic break” in the Carlyle Hotel.
j6wBv TIL that despite it being one of her best known songs, Doris Day hated performing "Que Sera, Sera", calling it "a kiddie song" and considered it inappropriate for the film it was written for, The Man Who Knew Too Much (which is about a kidnapped child). She eventually refused to ever sing it again.
5YD8B TIL viruses aren't living beings like bacteria, but rather they behave more like androids that hijack living cells and then replicate. This is why antibiotics don't work with viruses as they do with bacteria; with viruses it’s hard to kill something that isn’t quite alive to begin with
R5Wol TIL that Project Gutenberg Australia has no formal relationship with Project Gutenberg, and contains many works not available in the latter due to difference between Australian and American copyright laws.