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TIL 97% of girls in Egypt have had their clitoris cut off.

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mX1Y TIL There is a key change in every verse of “I Walk the Line” and you can hear Johnny Cash hum before each verse to get his pitch (cannot unhear)
4XOPw TIL most of the actors that auditioned for the role of Al Bundy on the sitcom Married with Children played him as angry and yelling. Ed O'Neil was the only one that portrayed him as a resigned loser
1aRMD TIL Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish soldier who during WW2, over-dosed on amphetamines, lost his squad, laid in a ditch for a week after stepping on a land mine, then travelled over 250 miles on skis, was found alive only weighing 94 pounds. He went on to live another 45 years.
PkvZ TIL there is a tiny British colony in the Pacific with so many pedophiles that the no one under the age of 16 can go there without prior authorization
Eg6DW TIL that onions don't contain the compounds which make you cry. The act of cutting the onion breaks open its cells and allows an enzyme to interact with amino acids resulting in Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide being produced in the air.