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TIL in North Korea women are not allowed to ride bikes, wedding ceremonies MUST be held before one of the 34,000 Kim-Il-Sung statues, and citizens must display in their homes a portrait of their leader.

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yQQ4M If you burn about 80 calories per mile walked, you’d need two trillion PowerBars to fuel the trip.
p8V6O TIL that during the Middle Ages period, male physicians discredited their female counterparts who practiced medicine as being incompetent and dangerous. The civil leaders and the clerics branded such women as witches.
M5vK TIL that the series finale of MAS*H had an estimated 125 million viewers; the most for any TV show. It was also reported that 77% of the toilets in NYC were flushed in the 3 minutes following the end of the episode, the highest water usage at one given time in the city’s history.
41BR TIL More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers’ use of the drug during pregnancy.
x6jNB TIL there are five mass extinctions that each destroying 75-95% of all species. Currently we are on the sixth, because of human activities.