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TIL that To obtain a passport, Pakistani citizens must declare whether they are Muslim or non-Muslim; Muslims also must affirm that they accept the unqualified finality of the Prophethood of Mohammed, declare that Ahmadis are non-Muslims, and specifically denounce the founder of the Ahmadi movement.

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X0J88 TIL Yang Liwei, China's first man in space, heard a mysterious knocking in space but it did not come from outside nor inside the spaceship. He has even tried - but failed - to recreate the sound so that experts could help him identify it
dDRbd TIL car speedometers often become "frozen" following a heavy accident. The last reading can indicate the speed at impact, but is usually incorrect. This is not a feature - speedometers were not designed to jam after an accident.
KVPa TIL: Zack Galifianakis pays the rent for an apartment for a homeless women he knew growing up. He’s also taken her to two Hangover premiers as his date.
bdMp TIL of the word “dumbsize”: to reduce the staff numbers of a company to such low levels that work can no longer be carried out effectively.
4km9J TIL that the conspiracy theorist David Icke was (before his mental breakdown and declaring himself the son of God in a chatshow in 1991) a footballer and a popular BBC sports correspondent