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TIL that Alfred Hitchcock had cameo appearances in nearly all of his films

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KYMbR TIL that ligers (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger) are the largest big cat because, unlike lionesses, female tigers do not possess growth-limiting genes to counter the growth-maximising genes of male lions.
nejK7 TIL Ben Franklin wrote a letter listing the benefits of having sex with older women. Including it takes longer for the vagina to age and that "they are so grateful"!
D51V TIL in the Sydney Paralympic games of 2000, Spain’s basketball team were ordered to return their gold medals after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.
4kadR TIL that Lise Meittner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, never won the Nobel Prize. She was nominated 48 times in both Physics and Chemistry.
XjKr TIL of the Gulabi Gang, a group of several thousand women in India. They fight against child marriage, dowery, dowery beatings, and other social injustices, regardless of gender or caste differences.