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TIL the populations of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are 26.3% and 26.8% female, respectively.

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Av0g TIL of anesthesia awareness, a condition in which a patient under anesthesia is completely conscious yet unable to physically move their body. Patients are fully aware for the entirety of their operation and are able to feel pain without the ability to alert the doctors to stop the procedure.
rNJYd TIL that the Sphinx is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt dating back to the old kingdom during the reign of Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BC). The nose was deliberately chiseled off before the 15th century as it's absence is referred to in descriptions by the 15th-century historian al-Maqrīzī.
XEdgk TIL that in 1984 a group of paleontologists discovered a 50,000-Year-Old Bison frozen in the permafrost in Alaska and consumed part of its neck meat. They described it as tasting like mud but smelling like beef and mushrooms.
KYQk9 TIL Abram Petrovich Gannibal began the first Black Russian aristocratic dynasty in the 1700s. Born in what is now Cameroon, Central Africa - and brought to the court of Peter The Great - he became a war General and godson of the Emperor. Many European royal houses descend from Gannibal today...
YMjx TIL Britney Spears songs are used to scare off pirates in Somalia