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TIL there’s a town in Brazil made of women. Sons are sent away at 18 and husbands are only allowed to visit on weekends.

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666w TIL that in 5 years, Jahangir Khan played 555 consecutive squash matches, maintaining an unbeaten run the entire time. During this winning streak, he won the International Squash Players Association Championship, without losing a single point.
R5yMl TIL that when President McKinley was shot in 1901, the best surgeon around was knee-deep in a complex operation. When told he was needed elsewhere, he replied that he could not leave, not even for the President. Even after he was told who his new patient was, he remained put and finished his work.
jN4vp Today I learned in the US you can opt-out permanently (or for five years) for the majority of junk-mail credit card and insurance offers.
b6p1N TIL Injera is a thin, soft fermented baked Ethiopian food made of teff flour using two rounds of complex fermentation process for 24 to 96 hours. It involves making absit first, or fermenting dough leftover after waste water is removed
E1Kg7 TIL that the Postal Service once printed 3 billion stamps featuring the Statue of Liberty, before realizing that the picture was actually of the Las Vegas replica