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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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176X TIL that some ants abduct different breeds of ants to keep them as slaves. Those slaves occasionally rebel, sabotage their masters hives and kill their offspring. Behold the Spartacants.
GjG7 TIL nodding your head to mean “yes” and shaking your head to mean “no” is common among people of every country in the entire world, except Bulgaria and southern Albania, where they mean the opposite.
DQeYp TIL that all tortoises are turtles and they share the same Order, Testudines, under the Class Reptilia
JYxQ8 TIL in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), when first Darth Vader force chokes the imperial officer, he interrupts him saying the words "hidden fortress". This is a nod to The Hidden Fortress (1958), an Akira Kurosawa film set in Feudal Japan which Star Wars is based on. (timestamped link in comments)
V8JG TIL that after the civil war ended, the first General of the Confederate Army was active in the Reform Party, which spoke in favor of civil rights and voting for the recently freed slaves.