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TIL in the 60s female track athletes were required to be examined naked to verify their sex.

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8GbG TIL that after a nuclear disaster in Japan in 1999, the operating company declined government funds and paid compensation itself based not on a legal liability but rather its moral responsibility.”
LkkM0 TIL Angus Young, the lead guitarist, and co-founder of AC/DC is a teetotaller!
WX1A TIL people who constantly bite the skin around their fingernails or on the inside of their cheeks suffer from dermatophagia, an impulse control disorder linked to anxiety and obsession
kOwg4 TIL that the name of the eponymous character "STAN" from Eminem's biggest hit song of the same name ,has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous, maniacal, overly obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality; the term has since been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
OoxAe TIL NASA firefighters used military armored personnel carriers during every space shuttle launch in case they needed to rescue astronauts at the launch site.