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TIL a friar is a monk without a monastery
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TIL that in WWII, pilots often blacked out in turns as high g forces made blood pool in their legs. British Ace Douglas Bader, however, did not have this problem, since his legs had been amputated after an accident.
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TIL the USSR changed to a six day week to force Christians to work on Sunday and made Christmas a national day of work
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Today I learned (TIL) There was a 74.9% increase in female enrollment in computer science bachelor’s programs between 2012 and 2018. Go #womenintech!
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TIL: The German word for “selfie stick” is deppenzepter, which roughly translates to “idiot staff”
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TIL the mayor of Bogotá hired several hundred mimes to mock poor drivers, leading to a decrease in traffic violations.