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TIL A bus driver in Brampton, Ontario, learned to speak fluent Punjabi with the help of passengers. Many people in the community are surprised and delighted at his Punjabi, including seniors who don't speak English

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MeYNb TIL the tapeworm diet started with women in the Victorian Era. The style was to have pale skin, eyes that looked dilated, red cheeks and lips, and a tiny waist. In the age of corsets, they also ingested tapeworms to lose weight. Still practiced today, women take a pill that has a tapeworm egg inside
gZA9 TIL that the cornea has no blood supply, and oxygen instead diffuses into it directly from the air.
x6yjB TIL that in the UK, the number of women (103,575) who applied to study law at the undergraduate level in 2022 was nearly double the number of men (51,865) who did.
ep7rJ TIL that in 1866 the US Congress passed legislation that legally protected use of the metric system in commerce.
6EkyX TIL Chinese moso bamboo can grow almost a metre in a single day, about 35 inches.