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TIL that people with a certain type of dwarfism are genetically protected against getting diabetes and cancer

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EgP6W TIL as a result of the episode ‘Band in China’, South Park was banned in China.
m107R TIL that the impact of boxing gloves on the injuries is a controversial issue, a report by the British Medical Association concluded that glove do not reduce brain injuries and may even increase them.
epxG4 TIL that there’s such a thing as basically turtle wax for actual turtles.
loM05 TIL that to this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge that there was an Armenian genocide in WWI, claiming that the 1.5 million were merely relocated.
YpXNP TIL "claptrap" is literal: it means low-quality writing meant to goad a play's audience into cheap applause