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TIL that just 2% of Chinese women smoke tobacco, while more than half of Chinese men (50.8%) do.

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epWj6 TIL Boss Tweed was convicted in 1877 of stealing between $25 and 45 million of NYC taxpayer money through corruption, but later estimates puts that figure as high as $200 million ($5 billion in 2023)
OGolY TIL that photoelectric cells (which effect explained by Einstein) switched the lights on during the exposition of Chicago from 1833. They were activated from photons coming from Acturus star ; those took 40 years to land there and were released from the star during the previous exposition
ANRdl TIL that the Wizard of Oz (1939) popularized Green Witches
4X7BX TIL that in 1915, Frank Lloyd Wright's chef snapped and went on a killing spree at his famous house Taliesin
m1kVE TIL that American chemist Gilbert Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry every year from 1922 until 1946 but never won it. His death in 1946 may have been a suicide.