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TIL Men who are sentenced to stoning in Iran are buried up to their waists, women up to their chests. If a person can escape, the sentence is terminated.

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9YM76 TIL - When your eyes look right, your eardrums bulge to the left, and vice versa. However scientists have discovered that the eardrums move 10 milliseconds BEFORE the eyes do, and they don't know why.
69Gp8 TIL Only 2% of the $276 billion in venture capital funding in 2021 was invested in Energy industry; in contrast Technology industry received 77%.
XEeKk TIL Grant Kirkhope, the composer of Donkey Kong 64, is still embarrassed by the DK Rap since he created it as a joke.
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