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TIL the world’s only Cornish Pasty museum is in Mexico

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BgW1L TIL Jessica Cox is the world's first licensed armless pilot, as well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.
ZllB TIL that there is a biker gang from Arizona who help keep child abuse victims safe while the child’s abuser is prosecuted, including guarding their houses at night if person is not yet in jail and attending court with the child, shielding them so they don’t have to look at their abuser
4XOG5 TIL the US and UK intentionally avoided the Geneva conventions to avoid accountability for the mistreatment of German POWs, instead designating them 'Disarmed Enemy Forces'. This lead to large, wired in enclosures with poor shelter and other necessities, and prohibited the Red Cross from intervening
orxK TIL in the 1930s, penicillin was so precious that it was re-extracted from the urine of patients to conserve every last bit of it.
j6yNj TIL that Babe Ruth constantly cheated on his wives during his baseball career. A detective that the New York Yankees hired to follow him one night in Chicago reported that Ruth had been with six women. Another player said that he was not Ruth's roommate while traveling; "I room with his suitcase".