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TIL about pleasure marriage in Indonesia

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4N5R TIL that up to 25% of the population may have trouble distinguishing between right and left, even into adulthood.
lYYK TIL Henrietta Lacks died in 1951. The tumor that killed her has been alive and growing to this day.
1ajJD TIL Korea has 40% of the worlds dolmens (a type of megalith) It is unknown why so many are in the peninsula
GYm7Q TIL that in 1963, Malcolm X gave a powerful speech on the state of institutional racism in America
awm7y TIL about the Gaesatae, a group of Gaulish mercenaries hired to fight the Romans in 225 BC. The Gaesatae fought naked to intimidate their foes, but their small shields offered little protection against Roman javelins, and they were driven back.