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TIL at least 9 med schools in Japan manipulated exam results by females so fewer women could enter.

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gMdx4 TIL in 2018, a social media influencer asked a Dublin hotel for a five-night free stay in exchange for publicity, and broke down in tears in a video when she was bluntly refused. The hotel responded by banning all influencers from its premises
16BYW TIL that taking anti inflammatory drugs like Tylenol or Ibuprofen before getting a vaccine will negatively affect the body’s immune response, thereby reducing immunity to the disease the vaccine is intended to help prevent
7GXx TIL that a stockbroker named Nicholas Winton brought 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children to England, saving their lives. He refused to take credit for his deed until his wife found a scrapbook of the children that he saved and gave it to the BBC. He turns 104 this year.
GmgN TIL that every Purple Heart medal awarded up to date was originally made during WWII in anticipation of the casualties that US troops would suffer in Japan
GKB1 TIL that 13 women have accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them.