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TIL No Bra Day was spun off a medical event to encourage breast cancer survivors to consider reconstructive surgery. It was named BRA (Breast Reconstruction Awareness) Day. Some see it as sexualizing and exploiting women's bodies while at the same time belittling a serious disease.

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5YjV8 TIL Fruit flies are considered model organisms to understand human alcoholism. Also, after extensive binge drinking males are known to engage in homosexual behavior
wgW TIL there is a section running across the entire southeast US where blacks outnumber the whites called the “Black Belt”
mrRv TIL after both had become massively famous, Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood got drunk and pissed on the grave of a studio exec who had fired them
vPPB TIL Mother Theresa caused thousands to suffer because she believed suffering “brought people closer to Christ” and was the source of many deaths because she refused to give people quality health care while receiving world-class health care for herself.
wLXWP TIL there is an NGO in Bangladesh who sells 10,000 meals daily at only 1 Taka (0.012 USD) per meal instead of giving it for free, so people don't feel like they are begging