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TIL in Qatar homosexual acts between adult females are legal whereas homosexual acts between adult males are illegal.

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x6LJw TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest becoming the youngest Briton to reach the world's highest peak at the time.
aLGA TIL During WW II Britain stopped selling food to Ireland in order to persuade them to drop neutrality and enter the war. Ireland responded by cutting off all exports of Guinness. The supplying of food was resumed.
VMKkm TIL on March 27, 1977, Robina van Lanschot decided to not reboard her flight, staying at her layover destination, despite this being against the rules. She was the sole surviving passenger of KLM Flight 4805, which crashed into Pan Am Flight 1736 on takeoff, killing 583.
PkVg TIL In 1980, the city of Detroit gave Saddam Hussein a key to the city. In recognition of donations he made to local Chaldean churches.
KbW6 TIL Colin McGregor, the brother of ‘Star Wars’ actor Ewan McGregor, is a pilot in the Royal Air Force. His aviator nickname is Obi-Two.