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TIL In South Korea repeated sex offenders are chemically castrated

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W7Lv9 TIL Bing Crosby, called the first multimedia star, recorded over 1600 songs and 70 feature films
GJ7Q TIL a CDC study claims more men are victims of partner abuse than women
OoAML TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"
nWElP TIL the first elevator shaft was built in The Cooper Union - four years before the first passenger elevator was even built
vlyx TIL it is possible to write computer code entirely using white space, in the style of a Shakespeare play, or as an image.