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TIL that women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to pilot airplanes but are not allowed to drive cars.

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8arlV TIL that in his later years, Mark Twain had a "disturbing passion for collecting young girls". By age 73 had collected ten schoolgirls, dubbed them his “angel-fish,” and awarded them membership in his Aquarium Club.
7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons
wLdK1 TIL about "Benjaman Kyle," a man who was found outside a Burger King in Georgia with no identification nor memory of who he was. It took him nearly 11 years to finally discover who he really was.
LQDbd TIL Guqin, the ancient Chinese zither, has its own musical notation and 150 handbooks containing over 3,000 pieces of music spanning at least 1,500 years. However today fewer than two thousand people can play it, and it is rarely seen in China
epaZk TIL that Mae West did a cover of the Beatles song 'Day Tripper'