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TIL According to Saudi Arabian law, women are not allowed to drive cars but are allowed to fly planes.

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a8jn9 TIL that bowling balls used to be made with asbestos in an effort to dispose of by-product waste from brake pad manufacture.
l7Ey5 TIL of ant-fungus mutualism. Leafcutter ants cut leaves and transport them back to their nests, where the leaves are used to cultivate fungus which is used as a food crop. In some advanced genera the queen ant may take a pellet of the fungus with her when she leaves to start a new colony.
pJvA TIL: In Kenya, homosexuality is a crime with 96% of Kenyans thinking it is unacceptable. Yet the second most popular search in the country was ‘gay monster cock’.
9Y676 TIL Serbian is practically the only European language whose speakers are fully functionally digraphic: that is, they commonly use two different alphabets to read and write (Cyrillic and Latin)
N78e8 TIL Gymnasium is ultimately derived from gymnos meaning naked, by way of the related verb gymnazo, whose meaning is "to train naked".