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TIL that women who want to enter Canada as a stripper have to provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa.

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p8klA TIL The Breidings Home in KY was set on fire due to a kitchen accident, the whole family escaped but to their surprise the infant daughter was missing. As they panicked they were relieved to see their dog pulling the infant out to safety by her diapers.
YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.
J15ZV TIL that a microscopic inorganic flash of light, also known as a zinc spark, is released by the human egg upon fertilization when billions of zinc ions are exocytosed from its surface.
JYRB TIL one woman has successfully performed a caesarean section on herself with only a few shots of liquor as anesthesia
15Xd TIL that a Colombian football player who scored an ‘own goal’ in a 1994 World Cup match against the US was subsequently murdered as the scapegoat for the team’s upset loss – one of the gunmen shouted “goal!” every time he fired a shot