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TIL Since 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods.

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wop5Y TIL that over 150 Japanese people contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (yes, THAT one) after being implanted with Lyodura, a brain patch illegally harvested from random cadavers
rRe74 [TIL] Spain had a Fascist government well into the 1970's.
b6nj7 TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best.
degB TIL, Pakistan names its nuclear missiles after Muslim leaders famous for killing Hindus. For example, one missile is named “Ghazni” in honor of a ruler who purposefully targeted Hindu Temples, like the sack of Somnath Temple. 50,000 were killed with thousands of captured Hindus forced to convert.
e0m7k TIL The International Potato Center has successfully grown potatoes in a simulated Mars environment. They grew the plants in a CubeSat which mimicked the Martian air pressure and atmosphere, and used saline desert soils analogous to Martian soils as the growing medium.