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TIL about 25% of American men can't grow beards
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Q4V9
TIL Custer’s only strategy for the Battle of Little Bighorn (his ‘last stand’) was to kidnap women, children, elderly and disabled and use them as human shields.
J1n71
TIL that the Edwards aquifer in Texas is one of the most biodiverse subterranean systems in the world. Several species are only found in that area, with a species of blind catfish (curiously the only species in the genus Satan) coming out of wells 610m deep.
rNGdy
TIL in 1907, passengers arriving at Ellis Island had to pass a medical exam to enter the US. Doctors used a secret code to mark passenger's clothes with chalk: 'H' indicated heart trouble suspected; 'L' suspected lameness, and 'X' suspected feeble-mindedness.
gM514
TIL in Renaissance Italy courtesans were known as cortigiana or "courtier". These women were well-educated more so than women of nobility & simultaneously artists, dancers & singers. These women were often treated as equals to women of nobility.
J4y8
TIL a white guy in Oakland put a concrete Buddha in a median to stop trash dumping, and it turned into a huge Vietnamese shrine - stopping the dumping but filling his neighborhood with tourists.