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

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XEkAD TIL that after 9/11, Martin Scorcese was pressured to remove the Twin Towers seen in the ending of the 2002 movie "Gangs Of New York". Scorsese chose to keep the scene in, saying that "The people in the film ... were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it."
O4L4 TIL That the highest fighter ace during the Battle of Britain was so ill-disciplined that he was seen as a danger to his colleagues, so he flew a ‘spare’ aircraft and flew his own patrols crediting 17 kills within a month. He was then killed in a crash while attempting to impress his girlfriend.
6EE77 TIL about the Circassian Genocide, where about 1,500,000 Circassians were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced by the Russian Empire in an attempt to make room for Russian colonization in Circassia.
VBG9m TIL about Dyers Burgers, who have been using the same grease to cook for over 100 years
j6XjX TIL that telegraph operators fell in love, got married, and even had sexual encounters over the telegraph, much in the same way people do today through messaging and social networks