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TIL cheekbone reduction surgery exists and is somewhat popular in South Korea

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DQ5pJ TIL Potatoes 'permanently reduced conflict' in Europe for about 200 years
JYp8 TIL Japan hosted a charity breast squeeze event to raise money to stop AIDS where anyone over 18 can squeeze a porn star’s boobs. Also, Masturbation Marathons exist in Japan.
6E7vY TIL that Cyril Radcliffe was given just five weeks to decide on a border between India and Pakistan. Before his appointment, he had never visited India and knew no one there.
neNed TIL Cyrano de Bergerac, Badass in the 1600s, wrote about using rocket power to get to the Moon and talking earrings (headphones) used to educate children.
gM1NX TIL there is a German man who was born in 1905 (when Germany was still ruled by Emperors), was 12 at the end of WWI, 40 at the end of WWII, 84 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, and is still alive at 113 years old.