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TIL Clementines can be used as candles.

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LA70 TIL that Islam allows abortion given that the pregnancy is a threat to the women’s life, in case of rape of foetal deformity or if the foetus is less than four months old.
lgy7 TIL a baby boy was born via caesarean to a 15-year-old girl, who happened to have a vulva but no vagina, 278 days after she sustained abdominal wounds in a knife fight after giving oral sex, during which time spermatozoa gained access to her reproductive organs via the injured gastrointestinal tract
WroA TIL that Kinji Fukasaku, the director of ‘Battle Royale,’ had worked in a weapons factory that was frequently bombed during WWII. “We would try to get behind each other or beneath dead bodies to avoid the bombs… it made me understand about the limits of friendship.”
xxD0 TIL there is a unique career known as a ‘Professional Fan’ and only belongs to one person. His name is Cameron Hughes and he gets paid by sports teams to cheer at their games.
KOJMQ TIL that in Hindi (the language predominantly spoken in India), yesterday and tomorrow both share the same word कल (kal). The only way to tell which one is being used is the context and tense of the sentence.