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TIL that during season 1 of Star Trek: TNG some of the male crew members had skirts on (usually in the background). This was “a logical development, given the total equality of the sexes presumed to exist in the 24th century.”

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wLGK7 TIL that there is a massive complex of termite mounds in Brazil that are 4,000 years old and about the size of Britain
W9oX TIL a 2007 study by Harvard researchers found 62% of bankruptcies filed in the U.S. were for medical reasons. Of those, 78% had medical insurance.
j7LE TIL In the 1700s the Catholic Church was so adamant that suicide would send you to Hell that suicidal christians murdered innocent children instead. The child would go to heaven, and the person would be executed for murder. They would be able to repent their sin to a priest shortly before execution.
KOlGa TIL that the skin of arctic tribes people are dark because they get all their vitamin D from fish instead of sunlight. Their skin does not need to lighten to try and get more sun for vitamin D production.
JW0Q TIL of an Indian elite chef, about to take a new job in Switzerland was visiting family back home when he witnessed a starving old man eating feces for food. He was so shocked by the incident that he decided right there the he would instead spend the rest of his life feeding the poor and destitute.