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TIL: Skateboarding is becoming popular in Afghanistan - especially amongst women

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oGNW TIL video games activate reward the regions of the brain in men more than women, according to a Stanford University study. And men are three times more likely to get addicted to video games.
JYxB4 TIL of A&P supermarkets, the "Wal-Mart before Wal-Mart"; it dominated American retail from 1910-1950, before falling into a long decline following federal anti-trust lawsuits and later corporate mismanagement, and survived until 2015 as a minor regional supermarket chain
9Y9jX TIL of Georg Gaertner, a German prisoner of war who escaped from a POW camp in the U.S. in 1945. He started an entirely new life under a new identity, and did not reveal his past, even to his wife, for 40 years
wLaA1 TIL Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ (1981) is credited as the first rap song to ever top the US charts
9Y0Er TIL that in 1968, in protest of the UK government cutting military funding, a Royal Air Force pilot went rogue and flew a Hunter jet low over parliament, rattling their windows, before tucking through a gap just 200 ft wide in Tower Bridge. The stunt remains as a record to this day.