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TIL that a girl in Iran gave birth at the age of 9 after being prostituted by her parents. When she was 19, she was sentenced to death for incest and prostitution, until a lawyer intervened and had her sentence reduced to public beating and imprisonment.

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O7VL TIL there was a single in Billboard’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks that no-one can find any evidence ever existed.
OomkL TIL that cheese is the most shoplifted food at 4% globally being stolen
p8wrG TIL that the world is facing a global sand crisis because sand and gravel mining greatly exceeds natural renewal rate.
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
Lk89Q TIL that FDR had a massive 750 lb globe on the floor behind his desk in the Oval Office. During WWII, he used the 4 ft wide globe to trace troop movements and plan military strategy with his advisors.