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TIL Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women

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rN7bd TIL mosquitoes most likely favor certain people based on their skin fungi
LWKv TIL a mysterious lady dressed with a headscarf like a Russian grandma, the Babushka Lady, was seen at the JFK assassination taking pictures of the event, and the FBI publicly asked for her to step forward with any pictures she took but she never came forward
4Xa5g TIL of "starlight tours", a practice of the Saskatoon police that involved arresting Canadian indigenous people and dropping them off oustide city limits to freeze to death. It went from the 1970's to the early 2000's.
RwPj TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
KOEba TIL Kobe Bryant’s grandmother only came to see him play one game his entire professional career. That one game versus the Toronto Raptors he scored 81 points.