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TIL nearly 40% of worldwide female suicides occur in India

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EVWx TIL ants do not have traffic jams because they don’t have egos, don’t mind collisions, and are very disciplined in crowded pathways
4XLob TIL that the French have been building a castle for 20 years using medieval techniques and building material, anyone can participate in the project, which will be completed in 2023.
v9Ax TIL Pierre Boulle, author of “Planet of the Apes” and “The Bridge over the River Kwai”, won an Oscar for the later movie adaptation. Not speaking English and not having actually written the screenplay, Boulle gave the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word “Merci”.
kJwNe TIL Hong Kong was attacked by Japan the same day as their attack on Pearl Harbor.
jNyJn TIL Iron overload in the human body is also called the ''Celtic curse'' or the ''Irish Illness and Scottish sickness'' due the substantial amount of people of Celtic descent having the disorder.