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TIL in Algeria, the largest country in Africa and 35th in world population, women make up 70% of the country’s lawyers and 60% of its judges, as well as dominating the field of medicine. Increasingly, women are contributing more to household income than men. 60% of university students are women.

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QNyb6 TIL that a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, but she kept testing positive for alcohol, which prevented her from getting a transplant, despite swearing that she hadn’t been drinking. The doctors were confused, and it later turned out that her body produced its own alcohol.
neoZd TIL There is a theory that Grandpa Jo in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is the story's villain. Jo claims to be unable to work, accepts Charlie's money for tobacco, relies on his poor family to feed him. Jo's deception is revealed when Charlie finds a golden ticket, & begins singing and dancing
V0Gk TIL Norway has world’s highest gas prices. Though they have oil reserves, they don’t subsidize fuel and use the $ for free college education and national infrastructure
0dG4R TIL A Polish destroyer ORP Piorun, single handedly charged the Battleship Bismarck, a ship 23 times the weight, and transmitted the message "I am a Pole" before opening fire. Another story states the vessel constantly transmitted this message at the Bismarck for the entire engagement
4kVyX TIL that some species of female butterflies have a second stomach called the bursa copulatrix which is highly specialized to digest only one substance.