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Pp5w TIL in Iran it is forbidden for women to ride traditional bicycles in the belief that it is a sexual stimulant and “causes corruption". Women riders are attacked by vigilantes. The Iranian version of the Islamic bicycle has a “boxy contraption that hides a woman’s lower body.”
dVb9 TIL Thomas Jefferson could read and write in 6 languages Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and English. Post death, a number of books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals also suggest he knew Arabic, Gaelic, and Welsh.
GYYPj Is the world finally ready for cellular agriculture, meat grown in a laboratory, or whatever else the latest marketing attempts are calling it?
epmEJ TIL the Rockefeller Center tree is donated to Habitat for Humanity every year since 2007 to help build a home
Brpy TIL that the sudden feeling of falling that occurs occasionally when one dozes off is actually a mild epileptic seizure and has been suggested to be connected with déjà vu.