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TIL that there are cultures where kissing doesn’t exist.

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gMNEX TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m
adMN TIL that in Texas, a parent of a public school student has to formally opt-out of allowing corporal punishment. This has to be in writing in advance, otherwise the school can legally hit the child with no recourse.
Yp9XA Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car.
ep78E TIL the name Pakistan is an acronym - Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.
7rVvx TIL of gutter oil - cooking oil which has been illegally recycled from waste oil collected from sources such as restaurant fryers, grease traps, slaughterhouse waste and sewage from sewer drains. It is estimated 10% of low end restaurants in China use it