1. India has doubled its number of airports in the last ten years. 🛫
2. The government of Thailand regularly fund families to pay for a son’s gender-transition surgeries, because ‘ladyboys’ - as they are commonly referred to - are great for tourism and the country’s gdp.
3. Killer whales go through the menopause. 😳💦
4. After stories about suicides are published or publicised in mass media, in the days and weeks after, suicide rates climb by 12%.
5. Israel is seeing a wave of soldiers taking their own lives - five died by suicide in July. Israel Defence Forces’s own investigations have found it is what soldiers have seen and done in Gaza that are the cause.
6. During the period of French colonisation, The Republic of Benin, known for its intellectuals, was nicknamed ‘The Latin quarter of Africa’.
7. The British Museum’s collection includes over 8 Million items. The vast majority of them have never ever been displayed or even catalogued. Yet, their collections grow. 🚫
8. Skunk spray is flammable: 🦨💨🔥
9. Dean Cain, who volunteered to join ICE, is one-quarter Japanese. The rest of his ancestors are Welsh, Irish, and French Canadian. He passed for White American enough to play Superman alongside Teri Hatcher’s Louis Lane. His birth name is Dean Tanaka. 🤣
10. The Chinese language has multiple words for compassion, each hi-lighting different shades of the concept, which is deeply rooted in Chinese culture, religion, and philosophy. 🙏🏿🫡