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TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, women in Afghanistan studied to be doctors - Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan… | Foreign Policy

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GYreQ TIL that Australian Aboriginals had their own indigenous farming and animal husbandry practices rather than being just hunter gatherers, and that their methods were sustainable and tailor-made to Australia's geographical challenges
9KRQ TIL that the British explorer James Cook was so well respected that during the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin wrote to all American colonial warships that; upon encounter, to give safe passage to his crew and vessel, and to consider them as ‘common friends to mankind’
PYoeZ TIL of King Alexander of Greece who died after being bitten by a monkey that had attacked his German shepherd. This significantly impacted Balkan history and Winston Churchill later wrote, "it is perhaps no exaggeration to remark that a quarter of a million persons died of this monkey's bite."
8agXP TIL Jason wasn’t planned to appear in the original Friday the 13th screenplay. Makeup designer Tom Savini had the idea to have Jason appear at the end because he had just seen Carrie and thought the movie needed a “chair jumper.”
Zp8jB TIL that Tesla named their fastest car, the Model S Plaid, as an homage to the 1987 cult classic movie Spaceballs in which the starship speeds are Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, Ludicrous Speed, and Plaid Speed.