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

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GAGr4 TIL about The Acerra Brothers' Traveling Professional Baseball Club, a baseball team consisting entirely of brothers
wLG08 TIL Stephen Hawking spent his final days attempting to solve the parallel universe mystery and updated his paper just ten days before his death
QJDpa TIL of the Minneapolis Skyway System, a system of footbridges that connects shops, restaurants, and residential buildings over an area of 80 full city blocks. It allows residents to live, work, and shop without ever leaving the Skyway system.
E1J5W TIL that due to a loophole in the New Jersey State Constitution women in New Jersey could vote from 1776 to 1807, many years prior to Women's Suffrage in the United States
E1BYp TIL the Monkees never outsold the Beatles and Rolling Stones (as widely reported). Michael Nesmith was giving an interview in 1977 and lied. "It isn’t too well known that we sold over 35 million records in 1967", said Nesmith. He wondered if it was too outrageous, the next day it was printed as fact