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TIL that female doctors are projected to outnumber male doctors in the UK within the next decade

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yV7Gl TIL in 1876, Texas set aside vast tracts of land for the state university system. At the time the land was considered to be worthless but was later found to contain oil. As of 2015 the fund is worth $17 billion.

rN6wd TIL about Paul Pena, a blind blues musician who taught himself Tuvan [AKA Mongolian] throat singing. He then traveled to the fringes of Mongolia to compete in a throat singing competition in the 90s and won.

beZE TIL The notion that ‘dude’ may have been derived as translating the Swahili word 'dude’ as “a thing of which you don’t know or have forgotten the name”.Purportedly, the locals described early missionaries to Africa as “dude”.

D7Ng TIL that Aztecs took two showers a day and used flowers as soap and cleaned their mouth with them as well. The Spaniards at the time avoided water because it was thought water on your skin made you more susceptible to the plague and they used urine to clean their mouths and teeth.

a8rPN TIL: The Kamikiri is a yokai that secretly cuts your hair. Various stories detail that it would prey on travelers at night, female servants, and humans who tries to marry an animal or ghost. There are many theories about its true identity such as it being a spirit, a wig store scheme, to fetishists.