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TIL 1/3 of reproductive age women are iron deficient

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awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.
GXZQ TIL that there is an opera being developed for Broadway that is the telling of Jesus’s life using only Britney Spears songs
pnPA TIL that there is a full contact Jousting World Championship title that is fought for every year, often resulting in serious injury
yQmQ8 Today i learned of the Gwangju Massacre of May 1980 in South Korea, where Gwangju citizens were massacred for wanting democracy, independence, and reunification
R5Dv4 TIL all the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years. Together, Earth's 0.001mm-long microbes could wrap around the Milky Way over 20,000 times.