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TIL in India pre-pubescent girls from lower (untouchable) castes are dedicated to a life of prostitution through a religious sex trade system.

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GYOVJ TIL of golfer Margaret Abbott, the first American woman to win an Olympic event. Rather than receiving a gold medal, she won a porcelain bowl, as was customary at the time
kkDg TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada campaigned for such ideas as repealing the law of gravity, and tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset.
AMG4 TIL there is an entire market behind the scenes of buying and selling the blood that selfless people donate. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry.
R7evQ TIL The small country of Andorra was the longest combatant in WW1. Being left out of the Treaty of Versailles, they remained at war with Germany until officially declaring peace in 1958.
nAd7 TIL of Missing White Woman Syndrome - the phenomenon of the media’s extensive cover on missing upper middle class white women who disappear compared to missing men, women of color or lower class