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TIL that Callitxe Nzamwita, a man from Rwanda, has lived in complete isolation for 55 years due to his extreme fear of women. Since the age of 16, he has barricaded himself inside his house, avoiding any contact with women.

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yQEVV TIL Pres. Lincoln visited a field hospital and offered his hand to a wounded soldier. "Mr. President, do you know to whom you offer your hand?" "I do not," Lincoln said. "Well, you offer it to a Confederate colonel." Lincoln replied: "Well, I hope a Confederate colonel will not refuse me his hand."
JnQB TIL in 2003 a Boeing 727 was stolen from an airport in Nigeria. Despite a worldwide search by the FBI and the CIA, it was never found.
0weJ1 TIL that after Disney acquired Miramax in 1993, the first film given the green-light was Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
eBdL TIL That in most of the United States you can be fired from your job for basically no reason and have no legal recourse.
6ZNJ TIL Jellyfish live in every ocean, and have survived five mass extinctions, for possibly 700 million years or more, despite most of them lacking specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems.