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TIL that Rwanda is the only country in the world with a female majority in parliament

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E4W0 TIL Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes were fired from a cannon on top of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button while Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” played. There were also fireworks and the whole thing was funded by Johnny Depp.
nW7gr TIL about split brain theory, which explains that a person's brain hemispheres cannot share information with each other if the corpus callosum is severed.
lodpA TIL after the 2011 earthquake in Japan, members of the yakuza gathered supplies and gave food to the victims. Some even opened their offices to people who couldn't return home. Some people felt like their response was much quicker and efficient than that of the government.
VBJJ4 TIL of NewBrew, a Singaporean beer made with recycled toilet water. It was made to promote Singapore's "NEWater" water reclamation plants that turn sewage into drinking water
lk1N TIL Nikola Tesla described a method where “an impenetrable wall of force can be erected around the United States”. This coming from a new FBI records release (part 3 of 3 page 62).