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TIL As a form of protest, Afghan women write landays—bawdy or sad poems with 22 syllables that often mock their sexist society.

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knDg TIL Shaquille O'Neal is a Freemason
vyJR TIL: That if the same solar flare that hit the earth in 1859 were to hit today, it would cause TRILLIONS of dollars in communication and satellite disruptions and would be the largest natural disaster of all time.
6ErjW TIL Famous dutch hardstyle producer Willem Rebergen, better known by his alias Headhunterz, also works as a voice actor. One of his best known speaking roles was the dinosaur Littlefoot in the dutch dubbing of "A Land Before Time".
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6EdlZ TIL that in 1974 Jimmy Carter gave an alumni speech at the University of Georgia Law School. Instead of honoring the alumni, he delivered a speech attacking the injustice in the judicial system so mercilessly that Hunter S. Thompson later named him as one of the three meanest people on Earth.