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TIL: In 2006 a woman tried living as a man for 18 months as part of an experiment on “male privilege.” She walked away from the experiment realizing that men are also suffering.

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9Yl0B TIL that in 1931, a scientist tried to teach a baby chimpanzee human behavior by raising it alongside his human son. The chimpanzee never acquired language skills and the experiment was called off when the human baby began imitating the chimpanzee's vocalizations.
mxNxE TIL that Madagascar has a larger population than Australia by almost a million people. Madagascar has a population of 25,570,900 while Australia has 24,598,930.
JY561 TIL that 15,000 to 20,000 per year are killed by land mines, most of them being civilian children, long after the conflict has ended.
QJBZX TIL Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas resulted in a $125 Million Dollar loss to Dreamworks Animations. This resulting loss almost bankrupted the company, among other things explained by founder David Geffen.
W7RMd TIL about the White Revolution, a sweeping -- and mostly successful -- program to modernize Iran. One element of it ended feudalism and gave farms to the farmers, but many of them ended up worse off than they were under feudalism. This caused a domino effect that led to the Islamic Revolution.