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TIL Humans Can Smell Rain Better Than Sharks Smell Blood

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6Ed7X TIL suicide is more common than homicide in America.
yQAAv TIL that cement is to concrete as flour is to cake. Cement is a component of concrete.
4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
E1abW TIL that the Soviet Union loved Bollywood films. The values of Indian society and the USSR were very similar and the socialist country enjoyed the common rags to riches narrative. In fact, the highest grossing film of the Soviet Era was a 1982 Bollywood film called Disco Dancer.
nXvY TIL a Slovenian man named Martin Strel has swum the complete lengths of the Danube River, the Mississippi River, the Yangtze River, and the Amazon River.