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4Ke6 TIL there are several cases of foreign women visiting Dubai for business, being raped, and then being jailed when they report the rape.
Y7dnx TIL, Why can't robots check the box that says 'I'm not a robot'? | WTFAQ | ABC TV + iview
9P5B TIL it would cost about $30 billion a year to eradicate world hunger, about as much as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
JYvl TIL that Brad Pitt’s crazy, rapid speech in Twelve Monkeys was perfected by director Terry Gilliam taking away Pitt’s cigarettes.
dDXXB TIL drowning is not strictly when someone dies from inhaling water, but refers to the automatic neurological response to a breathing emergency due to submersion in water. You can have drowned with no water entering your lungs and have no later health complications.