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TIL that the Oneida silverware company started as a utopian society where they would have post menopausal women teach teenage boys about sex

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jN91a TIL that the finding of a 1,600 year old bog body in England was confused for the body of a woman who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the 1960s. This caused her ex husband to confess to murdering her. After analysis revealed the body's age, he attempted to recant, but was still jailed.
b6mWZ [TIL] That because Canada doesn't allow busineses to run for-profit games of pure chance, all contests including a "Mathematical Skill Testing Question" that must be answered correctly to win a prize.
Ypmbx TIL That every breath we take today contains 41% more carbon dioxide than it did in 1750
b7BN TIL that the US and Israel are believed to have incorporated software into some aircraft that allows them to take control of enemy air defence networks on the fly. The US version is called Suter.
r5Ye TIL of Blackstone’s Formulation: the theory that it is much worse to punish an innocent man than let a guilty man go free.