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TIL that the main component of the Earth's upper mantle is a yellow-greenish mineral called olivine.

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4xa6 TIL that during the 1988 purges in Iran, women were lashed for missing their daily prayers. When one woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was ‘she who had made the decision not to pray’.
lkK7 TIL Pregnant women who swallow their partner’s semen has a reduced risk of preeclampsia - a potentially dangerous pregnancy complication characterised by high blood pressure.
5YeZp TIL that Hubbard said that Dianetics will allow men to, “rape women without their knowing it“ and excuses male pedophile behavior while blaming the child victim.
5VK89 TIL about Lucin (also known as Umbria Junction), a ghost town in Utah. Abandoned in 1936 by its original occupants, the community was resettled by 4 retired railroad workers and their families from 1937 until 1972, and again by 4 owner-residents in the 1990s.
LGDd TIL a Canadian inventor tried to create a “supergun” which could fire satellites into orbit from a 512 foot-long barrel embedded inside a hill. When Western funding failed, he turned to military application of his ideas for Saddam Hussein, but then he was assassinated in Brussels.