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TIL the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by a single person.

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m9PY TIL that Uzbekistan used to/still does perform non-consensual sterilizations on women after their 2nd childbirth. They would do it by removing the entire uterus. This happened to over 10,000 innocent women.
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nAVr TIL there is a phobia that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you, it’s called anatidaephobia.
E10vp TIL Around 20 million men in the US suffer from an anxiety disorder in which they cannot pee if someone is nearby.