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TIL 98% of women in Somalia have experienced forced gential mutilation

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WkN9N TIL Kid Rock didn't grow up in a trailer park, but on a six-acre estate with a 5,628-square-foot house and its own apple orchard.
8xmX TIL Paris, under Napoleon, purchased the source of the Seine so that the river, technically speaking, starts in Paris.
nWEmo TIL that internet was founded with the philosophy that academic information should be freely available to anyone.
oRGA TIL that Kirk Hammett encouraged Les Claypool to audition for Metallica after Cliff Burton died. After not getting the job, James Hetfield said it was because Claypool was “too good” and “should do his own thing.”
786YX TIL only about 10% of actively managed large cap funds have beaten the S&P 500 over the past decade, meaning 90% of people who paid wealth managers would have been better off just throwing everything into the most popular index there is