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TIL 2024 is the year the US Dept of Health and Human Services banned hospitals from performing non-consensual breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” by medical students and practitioners on patients under anesthesia.

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grnXA TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
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NM7Q TIL some deep sea sea cucumbers can slough off their bioluminscent skin upon contact, thus turning their predators into targets
8akoP TIL that, in March 2001, while on a trip in Kenya, the pilot of an airplane with Rowan Atkinson in it fainted, so Atkinson took control and flew it, until the pilot recovered
rwpW TIL: A man was ticketed for using the carpool lane in California with official papers of incorporation to prove corporations aren’t people