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TIL: There is a specific term for a young woman's first period... Menarche.

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neXQP TIL the HMS Belfast, which served in D-Day and fought in the Korean War, expected to be scrapped in 1967, so the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the Ministry of Defence all decided that it'd be preserved. Now, it is a museum on the River Thames.
d84ed TIL that in 1934, a group of Wall Street bankers planned to create a militia and overthrow President Roosevelt in a military coup d'état
PXAG TIL There is a film called Waterloo(1970) that used 15,000 real Soviet soldiers as extras who spent months learning Napoleonic formations and how to use a musket. It is also very faithful to actual history.
p881Q TIL: A Witcher tv series has already been made. A polish production called 'The Hexer' it was made in 2002.
kO7V4 TIL in 2006 a teenage girl secretly pointed a webcam at her bed and left it running all night, hoping to prove to her mother that her father was molesting her. In spite of the video evidence, the jury voted to acquit because they thought the girl "didn't seem upset enough" during her testimony.