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TIL by 1580, a syphilis outbreak in Europe left most people bald. A surge of wig making sparked the trend of powdered wigs which lasted for almost 200 years.

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ojL8 TIL that in 1971, on the day before Bangladesh officially won its Liberation War, Pakistani soldiers kidnapped the brightest Bengali intellectuals–writers, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, physicists, poets–and slaughtered them in the middle of the night.
6Ak7 TIL that Dr. Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in the United States, and is over 125 years old
JDpj TIL Scientology has a child labor camp in the heart of Suburban Australia, where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay.
nW4ZY TIL that the government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, currently in Canada, has been in exile since 1919 making it the oldest operational government in exile
Wg1N TIL A UK teenager secretly painted a penis on top of his house, and was caught over a year later when his parents looked at their house on Google Earth.