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TIL that women born in South Africa are more likely to be raped than to learn how to read.

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WkKAB TIL that pigeons don't have external sexual organs, so mating is accomplished by pressing their anal tracts ("cloacas") together.
b6J7 TIL that Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics. He abandoned his thesis work in 1971 to be a musician and went back and completed the thesis in 2007.
WaD4 TIL Someone once called the police to save her from men in her house trying to take her away…. except the men were police officers who were trying to arrest her.
yQb7p TIL Romania had a much-abused law that allowed prisoners to reduce their sentences by writing scientific books in jail. 30 days were written off for every book. One politician wrote 9 of them, and one 212-page book was reportedly written in just 7 hours.
nWe89 TIL about the Poison Fire Coral (Podostroma cornu-damae) a deadly fungus that's toxins can be absorbed by the skin and cause your skin to peel away. It has been found outside of where it was thought to only exist.