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TIL Gulf War Syndrome is not related to PTSD, but most likely due to sarin gas exposure

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yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
b619 TIL Stephen Colbert had a Southern accent but suppressed it because of the negative way Southerners are portrayed on TV.
x6yjB TIL that in the UK, the number of women (103,575) who applied to study law at the undergraduate level in 2022 was nearly double the number of men (51,865) who did.
oey7 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
4rGX TIL there was a popular Bitcoin alternative named Coinye West, until Kanye West sued for copyright infringement. In response, the company removed all direct references to West and replaced him with “an unnamed half-man half-fish hybrid.”