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TIL: An artist attempted to hitchhike from Milan to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. She was gang raped and murdered in Turkey. A Turkish newspaper said “Let’s face it, if Pippa were a Turk, some people would feel freer to say that a hitchhiking woman deserves to be raped.”

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dDeGE TIL that 22 monuments that would have been flooded by the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt were physically relocated by an international campaign created by UNESCO. The success of the campaign eventually led to the creation of the system of World Heritage Sites.
BrX9e TIL honeybees that get drunk on fermented tree sap are denied access to the hive and are often attacked by the sober bees.
OoaLL TIL that rescue dogs tasked with finding survivors at Ground Zero quickly became depressed because they weren't able to find any, causing their handlers to hide in the rubble and give the dogs someone to find.
VMePZ TIL according to Māori legend, Split Apple Rock in New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park, was split by two gods fighting to possess it. They broke it in half to compromise. Scientists believe that water seeped into a rock crevice and froze during an ice age, expanding and thus splitting the stone.
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.