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TIL there is a sport called ‘kiiking’ , popular in Estonia, where people swing on swings all the way, a full 360 degrees

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nWx9b TIL there are almost twice as many women as men attending college in the U.S.
a8rDN TIL of Dr Girard-Mangin, the first female doctor serving during WWI.
bGR0 TIL a programmer built scripts for every activity in his job that would cost him more than 90 seconds
16JdW TIL Of Fisheries Observers who are employed to monitor fishing boat practices and compliance. They work alone on boats often thousands of kilometers from port. It is a dangerous job and they disappear often.
Z9AR TIL that in 2005, some 1,500 sheep jumped off a cliff, in Turkey. Only the first 450 or so were killed, as the remaining animals’ falls were cushioned by the dead bodies below. More recently 50 sheep on their way to slaughter and jumped to their deaths in an unexplained and unprovoked mass suicide.