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TIL that Jews and Christians are considered “protected minorities” in Iran, and have seats reserved for them in the Iranian Parliament.

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GAyp7 TIL the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the neurologist, António Egas Moniz, who invented the lobotomy. However, this highly invasive procedure is now widely considered to be one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.
78EjP TIL of Burushaski - a language isolate predominantly from Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It has 4 genders - human masculine, human feminine, countable objects, and uncountable ones (similar to mass nouns)
R7oZj TIL Lamborghini, Audi, Bentley, Porsche, Ducati, Scoda , Seat are all owned by Volkswagen.
evBL TIL The advertising executive that first used sex appeal in ads was a female, and a member of the suffragette movement.
4XoZN TIL Mansa Musa is the richest person that has ever lived. Simply valued as "Richer than anyone could describe" his sheer wealth dwarfs the $4.6 trillion of Augustus Caesar and the paltry $150 billion amassed by Jeff Bezos and the $100 billion scraped together by Bill Gates.