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TIL: Males receive, on average, 63% longer sentences than females for the exact same crime.

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egW4 TIL there is a large blobby mass called the ‘North Carolina Sewer Monster’ found to be living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina. No one knows exactly what it is composed of and it reacts to light and heat by pulsating and retracting.
jNvMM TIL : about Maria Yzabell Angel Palma of The Philippines. In 2016 at 19 yo (grade 10), she developed AirDisc, a COOLing system with no freon gas and consumes ~75% less against the current cooling technology. And she discover this while making an eco friendly OVEN.
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
wLAnM TIL that Benjamin Franklin, before becoming one of the chief architects of the U.S Constitution and a Founding Father, was staunch British loyalist, even going so far as to state, "I look on the colonies as so many counties gained to Great Britain."
YRlG TIL there are 3 astronomical bodies that can cast shadows on the surface of earth bright enough for humans to see: the sun, moon, and Venus. A Venutian Shadow.