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TIL that before the 1900s, women didn’t start having periods until much later in their adolescence, as in late teens or even their 20s

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4XBeo TIL that Soviet music bootleggers in the 50s and 60s would take discarded X-Ray film from hospitals and re-purpose them into improvised phonograph records containing banned music. These recordings were called "Rib Music", "Jazz on Bones", or "Roentgenizdat"
6oJw TIL Meredith Baker, a former member of the FCC, joined Comcast 4 months after voting for the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal.
mZAO TIL in 1987 the US Government approved a project to construct world’s largest super collider. As of 2011 the construction site sits abandoned, with as a total $2 billion dollars wasted.
XE8GD TIL that fragile self-esteem is a core component of narcissism and personality disorders, conversely, unstable high self-esteem is actually another form of fragile self-esteem.
PYDMe TIL that 18 years ago, this Volkswagen supercar broke 6 world records.