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TIL about enclaves and other geographic anomalies: Dahala Khagrabari, a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh; and Vulcan Point, the world’s largest island within a lake that is situated on an island located in a lake

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xVAK1 TIL that between 1995 and 2000, hundreds of girls in the US went through estrogen therapy that often causes serious long-term effects, to prevent them from growing taller because of perceived social harms of being “too tall”
ADBM4 TIL about Microtargeting where machine-learning algorithms ingest large amounts of voter data to divide the electorate into narrow segments and predict which individual voters are best target to persuade or turn out in an election
Eyyx TIL that because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.
7jG7 TIL Andy Warhol ejaculated on canvas and it sold for $40,000
oBVkE TIL that most aerosol cans have a little dot painted on the rim that, when aligned with the nozzle, help you get every last drop of the product out before you run out of propellant. There’s a curved straw inside that runs down the edge of the can and that dot lines up with the bottom of that straw.