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TIL that before the Eraser was invented people used soft bread crumbs to erase pencil marks

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R5VXl TIL That Slovenia ranks at the very top of the EU Member States in terms of the number of beekeepers per capita at 5 bee keepers per 1 thousand inhabitants.
WwV8 TIL men’s hesitance towards promiscuous women (in considering a meaningful relationship) is not based on the woman’s previous sexual behavior itself, but on the fear of being fooled and taken advantage of.
NOdM TIL: 60% of men in India have penises too small for international standard condoms
PX8E TIL 15 girls perished in a school fire in Saudi Arabia because morality police outside would not let them exit because they weren’t wearing a veil.
Vl1D TIL that there is a black patch in the ceiling of Grand Central that is a symbol of what the ceiling used to look like, when smoking was allowed in Grand Central.