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TIL: Mariam Bin Laden was the first woman to swim the Red Sea

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yp58 TIL GPS trackers in fake elephant tusks helped to reveal an Ivory smuggling route.

QJ4yL TIL that Chris Langan, "the smartest man in America" with an IQ reportedly between 190 and 210, began weight training at the age of twelve after repeatedly being physically beaten by his stepfather and stopped the abuse himself at the age of fourteen by throwing him out of the house.

LklEQ TIL that during WW2, the Soviet Union trained dogs to blow up German tanks. Their usage was later discontinued, as the dogs tended to ran back to the familiar smell of Soviet soldiers and tanks, killing them instead.

1agx7 TIL There was a woman who saved up to $1300 a month by using match.com and going on dates for 30 days a month.

xVYdk TIL that Germans are low in cultural context: individualism, alienation, estrangement from other people, little body contact, and low sensitivity to nonverbal cues. By contrast, the French are high context: closely knit groups, sensitive to nonverbal cues, and engage in high amounts of body contact.