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TIL Native American men do not suffer from male pattern baldness

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OGAb6 TIL that Paul Ignatius, America's Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War is still alive at the age of 103
OoWNR TIL In 1978, Grave Robbers Dug Up Film Star Charlie Chaplin’s Body For Ransom. Chaplin's widow Oona refused to pay. "Charlie would have thought it rather ridiculous," she said. After 2+ unsuccessful months, the thieves were caught, and eventually wrote letters of apology to Oona.
xBvw TIL that in 1988 Reagan prevented the Senate from putting sanctions on Iraq for its violation of the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons. The US also voted against a UN Security Council statement condemning Iraq’s use of chemical weapons
x687o TIL that there was a 22-year-old Indiana boy named Brock Meister who survived a cancerous brain tumor and a car accident-induced internal decapitation (when the spine and skull fully separate from each other). The same neurologist also treated him for both life-threatening conditions.
eBXE TIL Mauritania tried to ban slavery thrice: in 1905, 1981, and as latest as August 2007. It is the ‘last stronghold’ of slavery on earth