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TIL in Afghanistan there are girls who dress and live as boys (going to school, etc.) until marrying age, then get treated fully as girls.

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D1wWV TIL Bill Gates selected 11 condoms of the future, and each finalist was given $100,000 to pursue their quest for a superior condom. Gates says, "The idea is making them easier for people to use in the moment, in the dark, whatever situation they're in."
d8YnE TIL Turkey's capital, Ankara, was a small town of few thousand people in the beginning of the 20th century. It is now a sprawling, modern city and a symbol for independence, development and Western values
XE08R TIL Actor Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Star Trek, MI:) once pretended to be kidnapped by aliens, tweeting he was going to check some noises in his attic, then disappearing from Twitter for 3 days. He re-appeared 5 mins after the time-of-day he "disappeared" & tweeted "everything's fine, nothing there".
kORgW TIL that in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program
b6B1Q TIL the Game Boy Color had an official rewritable cartridge for downloading games, and it was only discontinued in 2007.