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LA70 TIL that Islam allows abortion given that the pregnancy is a threat to the women’s life, in case of rape of foetal deformity or if the foetus is less than four months old.
XEwwj TIL of Walter Freeman, a man with no surgical training who popularized the transorbital lobotomy by driving around the US performing thousands of procedures on not just men but women and children too. Contrary to popular believe, there is no evidence that he referred to his van as the "Lobotomobile"
VBZ10 TIL There are more speakers of a language called Kannada than the population of Canada.
grry8 TIL the Adam and Eve also existed within Canaanite mythology. Adam was a god who was sent down by the great gods to save the tree of of life, and the world, from the serpent.
yVQPa TIL in Rwanda on the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".