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TIL that 98% of all adoptions in Japan are of adult men

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DQY8D TIL about the SS Île de France, the last civilian ship to leave France before the outbreak of WWII. It successfully transported 1,777 passengers fleeing from France to New York; while crossing the Atlantic, 16 other vessels were sunk by torpedoes, mines, or gunfire.
XEn0j SpaceX astronauts brought a little dinosaur in the rocket.
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
6EJlZ TIL the internet's first uploaded image was of the joke band Les Horribles Cernettes (LHC), an all-girl group comprised of girlfriends & assistants of CERN employees. One chorus went "You never spend your nights with me / You don't go out with other girls either / You only love... your collider"
JYYRv TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead