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TIL: Quarts and Liters are almost exactly the same

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j6d4n TIL of the remote cliffside village of Atulie'er, where—as recently as 2016—kids as young as 6 would spend 90 minutes each way climbing unstable vine ladders 800m to and from the bottom of the mountain to get to school.
9wVN6 TIL about the Levon Affair, a false flag operation in Egypt committed by Israeli intelligence. The bombings were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. Incriminating evidence was found in the apartment of one of the agents whose bomb prematurely ignited.
6EkMw TIL according to a 2019 poll released by Gallup, only 40 percent of American workers say they’re in “good jobs,” compared to 16 percent of the workforce who believe they’re in “bad jobs.” The remaining 44 percent of workers say they are in “mediocre jobs.”
VoyD TIL The Japanese are descendants of ancient Koreans
m1GZM TIL that ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test using wheat and barley. Women would urinate on bags of wheat and barley, and if the grains sprouted, it was considered a positive pregn aresult. Studies in the 20th century showed this method was surprisingly accurate due to hormonal changes.