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TIL Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia all have a higher proportion of women in parliament than the USA does in congress

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9YMjQ TIL that the actors that played Ethel and Fred hated one another so much, that Vivian Vance (Ethel) once stated: “I loathed William Frawley (Fred) and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wasn’t a scene where we had to be in bed together.”
1Ybd TIL that in 1982, Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash) was pressured by his manager to go into hiding in Texas as a publicity stunt for the band’s upcoming tour. Strummer instead decided to genuinely disappear to France for months, where he “dicked around” and ran the Paris Marathon.
8aeEa Brains are different in people who get the chills from music.
5VgED TIL that the popular show Umbrella Academy was originally a comic book series, and it was created by the singer of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way.
Ejkd TIL meth is so common in North Korea that suited elites in Pyongyang restaurants offer each other a “nose” after dinner, the middle classes take it as a cold cure or remedy for back pain, and the poor take it to ease the emptiness in their stomach.