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TIL even people with pale skin can get vitiligo.

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OGQG7 TIL for-profit bail only exists in 2 countries (US and Philippines). Elsewhere, paying money to leave pretrial detention is considered "a debt trap for poor defendants."
J17Q TIL: There is an area of the universe a billion light years across that has virtually nothing in it, not even dark matter.
glly TIL nuclear power technology, is one of the safest, cleanest and sustainable option despite past propaganda. Even nuclear waste can be recycled.
MeMrb TIL that the Secret Service has its own ink library which contains over 11,000 samples of ink, from all over the world, dating back to the 1920s.
oR4g7 TIL there is a hybrid sport called Chessboxing in which two opponents play alternating rounds of blitz chess & boxing. First chessboxing competition was in 2003 in Berlin.