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TIL the second Shah of Iran built a marble slide for his underground baths that was specifically designed for women in his harem to use to slide “into the arms of their lord and master before being playfully dunked in a pool.”

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kOJwE In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Paula Kahumbu explains how elephants' surprising fear of bees is actually helping to protect them.
6oOW TIL venus spins on its axis so slowly that the average human could easily out-walk it.
x6blD TIL Maggie Grace played 22 year old Shannon Rutherford on Lost starting in 2004, but played 17 year old Kim Mills in Taken in 2008
eDZn TIL 90% of all adoptions in Japan are adult adoptions, mostly men in their 20-30´s. Reason: Business leaders need a succesfull son to take over the business.
RN8l TIL In 2007, according to a Harvard research group, 62% of all bankruptcies in the US were caused by medical problems (this number was closer to 8% in 1981). Of those bankruptcies, 60% had private insurance.