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TIL that men are blond, and women are blonde

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gMM8X TIL that black nationalist Marcus Garvey created a shipping line called the Black Star Line with the goal returning African-Americans to Africa
jpKp TIL that Hockey rinks used to only have one shared penalty box, and players would often continue to fight in the penalty box.
woxkE TIL the insult "suck eggs" originates from the full phrase "teaching grandmother to suck eggs," referring to a person giving advice to another person in a subject with which the other person is already familiar
9g76 TIL that a paedophile had a brain tumor removed and with it, his paedophillic tendencies. When the tumor grew again in the same spot, his paedophile urges grew once more, and disappeared once again after the second growth was surgically removed.