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TIL 53% of Indian children are sexually abused

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QNoL TIL Disney’s animated film “Mars Needs Moms” is the biggest box office bomb in history
78emO TIL In 2002, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to test the Infinate Monkey Theorem by studying the literary output of real monkeys.
VM9Dm TIL five completely separate groups of crustaceans independently evolved into what we commonly refer to as "crabs." This phenomenon is called "carcinization."
4XY1w TIL that the deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft).
XYnr TIL that Singapore is the third wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).