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TIL that Saudi Arabia has a women’s only university with 52,000 students and its own rail system.

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8avMX TIL that, in figure drawing, a normal person is 7-and-a-half heads tall, but heroic figures like gods and superheroes are drawn 8-and-a-half heads tall, adding a bigger chest and longer legs.
neZJ9 TIL about the ‘Stoned Ape’ theory the idea that ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms was the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.
d8VB7 TIL that Nicholas cage did shrooms with his cat Lewis. I remember lying in my bed for hours," he went on, "and Lewis was on the desk across from the bed for hours, staring at each other . . . not moving. But he would stare at me," Nicolas concluded sagely, "and I had no doubt that he was my brother.
almy TIL that there are “price trackers” for Amazon that show you where the price has been. This is a great tool for avoiding fake Cyber Monday prices.
yrP8 TIL enough people are so certain that the “Berenstain Bears” were once spelled “Berenstein” that it has sparked a theory that they’re from a parallel universe.