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

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OGyRg TIL Women die 17% more than men in car crashes. And counting frontal car crashes the injury rate is also 73% higher.
KoWG TIL in 1930 the US government barred and returned any mail from Spain bearing a new set of stamps, which showed a world-famous painting of a naked woman
X4A6 TIL The smell of books makes some people need to poop. The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is a phenomenon consisting of the urge to defecate while visiting a bookstore. Originating in Japan, it is named for the woman who first publicized such an urge.
1a65O TIL The fossil record tells us nothing about how sightless animals first came to see the world.
rRKQy TIL doctors managed to keep Hisashi Ouchi alive for 83 days after he was blasted with 17 sieverts of radiation, the highest recorded dose any human has ever received. Estimated to be the equivalent to the epicenter of the Hiroshima bomb, the radiation annihilated his DNA and immune system.