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TIL that nowhere in the Quran is there a command that women must be veiled or covered.

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R7Q8Q TIL Rome has major struggles with expanding the subway system in the city because diggers keep running into major archaeological finds. The Metro C expansion has been in the works for the past 40 years and has unearthed Hadrian's Athenaeum, a military complex, and an amphitheater .
Z8BXv TIL about George Cassiday, the Man in the Green Hat. During Prohibition, Cassiday supplied alcohol to members of Congress, including those who voted for prohibition in the first place. After ten years, when the story broke, the public's outrage contributed the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
9DDG TIL - NASA posted sounds made in space near different planets in 2007. They have been appropriately named “Spooky Space Sounds.” You can listen here.
00VA TIL that your 10,000th day of being alive occurs when you are 27 years, 4 months, and (depending on leap-year cycles), approx 2 weeks old.
R78aw TIL that some people can't picture things in their mind and that those people are sometimes surprised to learn that other people CAN picture things in their mind