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TIL that women's brains appear about three years younger than men's of the same age in terms of metabolism

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O4Q6 TIL After Mark Twain met Helen Keller at a dinner party he was so impressed with her that he wrote to the wife Henry H. Rogers, a wealthy oil magnate, pleading her to convince her husband to support Keller’s education. Mr. Rogers agreed and personally paid her entire education.
VM7W4 TIL A Group Of Flat Earthers Spend $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat, Accidentally Prove It's Round
KYKp9 TIL the number of people killed due to karaoke is non zero.
6EagY TIL about Paul-Félix Armand-Delille who, when trying to reduce the rabbit population on his estate, purposefully released the myxomatosis virus amongst them which spread and destroyed the wild rabbit populations of Europe
5VLjr TIL of the SS Princess Sophia disaster. It ran aground on a reef in Alaska, but the weather was too rough to attempt a rescue or evacuation and it sank after 40 hours, killing everyone on board.