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TIL women in Iraq were far more safe, educated and free under Saddam’s regime than today

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d86PZ TIL that researchers at Yale managed to restore some function to disembodied pig brains.
8a5oG TIL there are some 5,000 words, mostly nouns, that the Turkish borrowed from the French language (and quite a few English ones too). If you speak French to a conversational level and you'r a native English speaker, you could learn Turkish in a few weeks.
16MgX TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009
X0Opk TIL that a lot of people use milk in their ramen instead of water.
5VeGp TIL the oldies song 'Earth Angel' was recorded by an unknown band in an actual garage on a single track recorder with no overdubbing. After being played by one radio station in LA, it grew to become one of the most successful and enduring songs of all time