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TIL USA only country in the world that where Olympic athletes are not government funded or sponsored

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Z8Y5v TIL It is legal in in 45 US states for doctors and medical students to perform pelvic exams on unconscious women for medical training, without explicit consent. This may also be done during consented medical procedures that are unrelated to gynecology.
M9O7 TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart thought he was circumcised for most of his life until his wife, and doctor, informed him that he wasn’t.
R5Pnw TIL that Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss put his firstborn child, a girl, up for adoption as he was too poor to raise her at the time and never mentioned her to his six other children. The woman eventually connected with her birth family in 2018 and wrote a book about the experience.
69XL8 TIL house cats are an invasive species
W70dX TIL that the Mormon (LDS) church is the largest landowner in the states of Florida and Illinois.