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TIL Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can’t drive cars.

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ADYwn TIL that due to tension between Pixar and Disney over whose film it really was, Toy Story had two premiers, one hosted by Disney and one hosted by Steve Jobs. Disney invited actors and other Hollywood celebrities, Jobs invited people from the tech industry.
7rrbL By switching off a genetic variant linked to increased risk of asthma.
JYGnj TIL There are no such thing as kangaroo farms, all kangaroo meat served in grocery stores and restaurants around the world is sourced from wild populations
Ykyx TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
6vPY TIL that IBM’s Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.