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TIL the only countries not have ratified the UN treaty for children’s rights are Somalia, South Sudan and the United States

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NX8y8 TIL Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company producing Wegovy/Ozempic, has a higher market value than the entire GDP of its home country (Denmark)
eAJ4 TIL when you give a thumbs up, the divot at the base of your thumb and wrist is called a “snuff box” ( this is actually the medical term)
rRrKo TIL that bulldogs can’t get pregnant or give birth naturally. They have to be artificially inseminated and then have a c-section. They technically should be extinct.
m5Mo TIL that the Milky Way is currently in the middle of a absorbing another smaller galaxy, the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy.
b9VM9 TIL according to Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman". Nirvana, or liberation, is defined as the blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".