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TIL: Mauritanian girls are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day to make them more attractive to men

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WkQBL TIL Researchers at Cornell analyzing Youtube videos of heavy metal concerts found that mosh pits model the behavior of gas particles in equilibrium.
p8YOb TIL of the Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, who led Zambian space program in 1960s, attempting to beat US and Soviets to the Moon.
neGGG TIL Bill Gates has given Khan Academy more than 10 million dollars, so he essentially subsidized millions of students' college degrees.
pYdLA TIL that HM Prison Shepton Mallet (UK) was used by the American military 1942 to 1945. At the end of 1944 there were 768 soldiers imprisoned. 18 were executed at the prison: sixteen were hanged and two were shot by a firing squad. 10 of the 18 men executed there were black and three were Hispanic.
PYvkG TIL that the Indonesian Army nearly conducted an amphibious landing in Somalia in order to free the crew of an Indonesian cargo ship captured by pirates. The plan was never executed because the pirates were all killed by Indonesian Special Forces and the hostages freed before they made it to shore.