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TIL 40% of all female suicides are from India

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VRAp TIL By the time the last mammoth became extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old.
jnlp TIL Birds’ knees are actually located just under their bodies and covered in feathers. What some believe to be birds’ knees bent backwards are actually their ankles bent normally forwards.
QJmle TIL about Eats, Shoots & Leaves a book dedicated to Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution.
X0alk TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice
LQjXZ TIL in 1917, a chimpanzee escaped from a nearby ménagerie, entered the Élysée Palace and was said to have tried to haul Henriette Poincaré, the wife of President Raymond Poincaré, into a tree only to be foiled by Élysée guards.