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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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XE7pR TIL South Korean women have gained 8 inches (20 cm) in height, on average, in the past century — a jump bigger than any other population in the world
lykV TIL the treadmill was created as a torture device.
0x0L TIL Gene Wilder came up with the idea for Young Frankenstein and pitched it to Mel Brooks on the set of Blazing Saddles.
4V6a TIL: The youngest person to build a nuclear reactor was a 14 year old named Taylor Wilson
74np TIL that there’s a museum called “Chinsekikan” in Japan that contains nothing but rocks that look like faces. Chinsekikan means “Hall of curious rocks” in English