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TIL in 2009 women in a Colombian village went on a sex strike to get the men to repair the only road in and out of town. 112 days later work began on the highway.

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yQV8 TIL that the USSR and the USA were originally in talks to jointly go into space together during the Cold War. The USSR almost accepted but then President Kennedy was assassinated and the Soviets didnt trust Vice President Johnson, so the plan fell through.
N71NP TIL the Woolworths store in Australia is unconnected to the historic brand in the UK and the US. The name was registered by the Sydney founders as a dare to see if it would be allowed. Despite the brand name being well established overseas it was available in New South Wales.
69Yd7 TIL that in 1922, a conductorless orchestra modelled on Marxist ideas formed in the Soviet Union. A committee decided tempos and playing styles. However, they found tempo changes difficult due to not having a leader to guide them, and were disbanded 10 years later by Stalin.
0wLGp TIL that in Poznan, Poland, eight clams get to decide if people in the city get water or not. They’re equipped with sensors atop them that trip the water supply pumps when they close due to detecting something unsafe in the water.
d8PA7 TIL Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) was on a flight to Nairobi when a mentally ill passenger broke into the cockpit and attacked the pilots. During the struggle the plane dropped 12,000 feet in 25 seconds, which is the fastest rate of descent from which any civil aircraft has ever recovered.