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TIL there was a man-made famine genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 that was hidden from media up until the 1980s

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8eKZb TIL that birth ratios seem to skew towards more females during famine. Mothers in good condition are more likely to give birth to sons, whereas mothers in poor condition are more likely to give birth to daughters.
78erX TIL that all the gold that has ever been mined in all of human history could fill about three Olympic-sized swimming pools.
NO7Q TIL that The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America, also has one of the fastest growing STD rates in the country.
XoBE TIL that Nikola Tesla was voluntarily chaste, despite numerous women “vying for his affections… some even madly in love with him”, because he believed sex inhibited his abilities to think in a scientific manner
E1yDV TIL that a tour group thought a woman was missing from their group because she changed her clothes. She even helped in her own missing person search before she realized that the group was looking for her.