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TIL that 16% Lithuanian people are HIV resistant.

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9YojX TIL that a Hawaiian folk story told of how a goddess named Kohe-kohe-lele, meaning "Kapo with the flying vagina", saved her sister from being assaulted by a half-man, half-hog fertility god named Kampua'a by detaching her vagina and luring an intrigued Kampua'a to the edge of the country.
0Nmv TIL the biggest mall in the world is 99% vacant and has been since it opened in 2005
1a4n4 TIL: About Andy Warhol's failed assassin, Valeri Solanas. A radical who called for the elimination of the male sex to create a Utopia for women. She shot Warhol in the liver, spleen, lungs, and stomach and he was required to wear a corset for the rest of his life.
KpYw TIL 1969, 90 percent of all children walked to school, as schools were part of complete neighborhoods, but in 2002 only 31 percent walked to school due to the impact of sprawl
nerM7 TIL While Leon Trotsky was returning to Russia after the Communist Revolution he was arrested and detained in Nova Scotia for a month. His revolutionary speeches were so popular that when he was banned from speaking, 500 prisoners signed a petition. The whole cell block cheered when he was released.