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TIL Lili’uokalani was the first and only reigning queen in Hawaii for just under 2 years before overthrown by the U.S.

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4BDN Today I learned that the US is currently ranked 46 in the press freedom index.
p8lb TIL. Sporus was a young boy whom Emperor Nero castrated and married. He was addressed as ‘Lady’, 'Empress’ or 'Mistress’ and considered to be Nero’s 'boy toy’.
BrYrb TIL that women are naturally more affected by alcohol than men because they don't produce an enzyme in their stomachs that starts metabolization early like men do.
1amO TIL that the screeching noise you get from scraping your fingernails against a chalkboard is uncomfortable because it is similar to a primate warning call and triggers a fight or flight response.
46mb TIL the head of South Korea’s biggest plastic surgery clinic does over 100 operations daily - ranging from eyelid surgery to nose reshaping to facial contouring - because “The Chinese and Korean patients tell me that they want to have faces like Americans.”