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TIL that spending just a few months in Antartica can shrink your brain due to environmental monotony and prolonged isolation

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gQYD TIL that China is allegedly engaged in mass organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, with 41,500 unexplained organ donations.
0wPZp TIL the HIV epidemic was ignored as a 'gay disease' in the USA until a handful of straight people with the disease received national attention. One of them, a kid named Ryan White, refused the label of "innocent victim" as he worried it implied that gay HIV patients were somehow "guilty."
yb18 TIL the stormtroopers in Star Wars are left-handed
9Y6RD TIL that "Song 2" by Blur was intended to be a parody of grunge culture, but was unironically accepted by the very culture it was parodying
VB1OD TIL about the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968-69. Of the 9 participants: 4 retired before leaving the Atlantic Ocean, one retired after Cape Horn, one sank, one committed suicide, one abandoned it, and only one completed the race