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TIL that India's name is based on Indus River which flows through Pakistan.

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9kRp TIL Tracy Lords was born in Steubenville, OH and was raped there at the age of 10. Her mother was also raped in Steubenville.
d8njd TIL of a non-theistic religion called the Church of Body Modification which practises piercing, scarification, plastic surgery, firewalking, corsetry and fasting in order to live a spiritually complete life
Z8DVG TIL about the “smiley face murder theory”, advanced by two retired NYC detectives, that a series of presumed drownings in Midwestern states were actually victims of a serial killer; the name refers to smiley face graffiti found near locations thought to have been used by the killer to dump bodies.
dd67 TIL that armpit odor is completely dependent on a single gene (ABCC11) and that many East Asians (and almost all Koreans) do not need to wear deodorant because of this gene.
JYlV8 TIL that Beach Boys lead songwriter and musical icon Brian Wilson made a hip-hop song