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TIL that a father in Dubai forcibly stopped lifeguards from rescuing his drowning daughter because he believed it would “dishonor” her to be touched by male strangers.

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dDWR7 TIL that still being a desert, the Sechura region of Peru has been effected at times by flooding and storms from the ocean. It is a coastal desert.
4XdDJ TIL about James Barry (born Margaret Bulkley), an esteemed military surgeon who reformed medical standards across the British Empire. He performed one of the 1st C-sections where both mother & child survived. After Barry's death in 1865, it was discovered his assigned sex at birth was female.
LvEd TIL that according to the bible, David was offered the king’s daughter if he came back with 100 foreskins of slain enemies. He came back with 200.
grjr4 TIL: Beaufort's Dyke, a deep ocean trench between Ireland and Scotland where the UK has dumped over a million tons of surplus munitions including nuclear waste. Occasionally some munitions wash up on the surrounding shores
xVMeb TIL that lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses got to the Madagascar by rafting there, according to scientists.