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TIL according to studies, when men and women are "just friends", on average men think the woman is still romantically interested in them, and on average women think the men are strictly just friends.

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JYkp4 TIL that Eunice Hunton Carter, a black female assistant district attorney, built the investigative case resulting in the 1936 conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano. She was the first African American woman both to graduate from Fordham Law School, and then to serve as ADA in New York.
N77wJ TIL Romanian dictator Ceaușescu built a huge parliament building in Bucharest, with a big balcony for addressing the people, but was overthrown and killed before completion. The 1st person to use this balcony was Michael Jackson.
nW5w9 TIL about a 1980 oil drilling disaster in Louisiana that drained the state's largest freshwater lake into a salt mine
VMXpB TIL consumption of a polar bear's liver can cause hypervitaminosis A. In severe cases, it can cause full-body skin loss, leaving the underlying flesh bloody and exposed
m1YXp TIL that a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's government attempted to order an arrest of about 86,000 people