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TIL The number of girls in India who drop out of school due to menstruation is 1 in 5 (20%).

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QNjJd TIL there is a latin concept "anima mundi" that translates to "world soul", or "soul of the world". Similar to the idea of the human body having a soul, the world also has a soul that allows for an intrinsic connection between all living beings.
vPEB7 TIL that around 20.000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the sea level was about 410ft (125m) lower than today and permanent summer ice covered 25% of the Earth’s land surface.
bKOE TIL the producers of Game of Thrones wrote an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia “Flowers for Charlie”
9wYg7 TIL there are measure for diversity of exports a country produces and their ubiquity, or the number of the countries able to produce them (and those countries’ complexity) called Economic Complexity Index. Japan currently holds first place.
yVA0J TIL whilst running for Governor of Alabama in 1962, former Governor Jim Folsom appeared drunk in a TV advertisement. This further helped his former protégé George C. Wallace defeat him in the primary.