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TIL that gynecologists train on unconscious women in hospitals, and it’s completely legal, standard procedure.

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D1yr TIL there was an epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse across America in the 1980s that turned out to be completely imagined. People were recalling memories of sexual abuse and cannibalism that never occurred.
LQA79 TIL Aftershocks from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 are still occurring, with the most recent being a magnitude 7.0 in 2021.
R5Nnw TIL Pixar’s Turning Red is one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, only making 19.8 million on a 175 million dollar budget.
j696X TIL: The ruins of Diocletian's Palace became shelter for the few remaining civilized people after the fall of the Roman Empire, taking advantage of the palace's robust walls from Barbarian raids. Over time it turned into the city of Split, as people settled and built homes inside the palace walls.
Ne5P TIL that Stalin screened “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. It backfired. Russian audiences marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars. (6th paragraph)