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TIL rape is the leading cause of PTSD in female veterans. With the majority of rapes being perpetrated by fellow soldiers.

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GYbD7 TIL in 1974, Crips leader Stanley “Tookie” “Williams encountered a body builder named Arnold Schwarzenegger who complimented Williams’ muscular physique. Decades later, Arnold Schwarzenegger would deny Williams a clemency decision that would’ve saved him from a state-administered lethal injection.
NXbj6 TIL: the Barbie doll is based on a German doll named Lilly that was based on a cartoon in a tabloid and initially sold to adults. Barbie and Ken were named after the children of Mattel's founders.
nYA9 TIL that Michel Siffre, a French scientist, contributed to the understanding of the endogenous biological clock, also called circadian clock, by staying two months cloistered in the abyss of Scarasson without time cues on a glacier from July 1962.
Wk1mY TIL that there are prostitute penguins who exchange sexual favours for stones.
Wo0X TIL Ryan Gosling gained 60lbs for The Lovely Bones by drinking melted Haagen Daz ice cream. He was fired for being too fat and replaced by Mark Wahlberg