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TIL No road or safe route exists between the jungles of North and South America in what is known as the Darién Gap

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697jJ TIL Fifty-seven percent of Afghan women marry before 16 years of age, 29% are forced into marriage to settle tribal conflicts, 84% are illiterate, and the average woman gives birth to eight children. Afghan women also have the highest prevalence of self-immolation in the world.
xVwKo TIL about "hypermiling", where drivers double the range of a Tesla by using one motor, no A/C, and no brakes. In 2017 an Italian driver drove a Model S for 670mi (1080km) on a single charge.
bor0 TIL that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by all the nations of the world except 3: Somalia, South Sudan and the United States of America
ADJJd TIL that the most verbose of all the Varangian stones - the Turinge Runestone in Sweden - is devoted to a Viking chief in service of Kiev King Yaroslav the Wise in the beginning of the XI century
OoVd1 TIL: Venus Flytraps are native to North and South Carolina