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TIL Chuck Berry is still alive, and only recently stopped touring.

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OoeeL TIL: Dildo, unincorporated town in Newfoundland, Canada, population 1,198. “In the 20th century there were several campaigns to change the name, though all failed”
BraJe TIL: Claims that red wine can help prevent heart disease are inconclusive at best, and at worst may lead people to drink more alcohol in pursuit of the health "benefits".
ADAgg TIL Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of an Army bus, 11 years before Rosa Parks.
eW64 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, your own kidney isn’t removed. It usually stays where it is and a third kidney is placed in your pelvis.
6E0gW TIL that the first large scale human trial for the birth control pill was conducted on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. These women were unknowingly participating in the clinical trial and deaths of participants were not investigated.